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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 344 - Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · 1931Most cited · 1,559 citing opinions
[The Fourth Amendment's warrant clause] prevents the issue of warrants on loose, vague or doubtful bases of fact. It emphasizes the purpose to protect against all general searches
How often courts cite the case defining “general search”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “general search” — 1,555 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.