18 U.S.C. § 3103
Section 3103 · Grounds for issuing search warrant - (Rule)
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case United States v. Werdene (2016)
Most recently applied in United States v. Croghan (September 2016)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
See Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
Grounds prescribed for issuance of search warrant, Rule 41(b).