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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 35 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Kahn.

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1 United States v. Kahn Anchor
scotus · 1974
green “designed to assure that wiretapping is not resorted to in situations where traditional investigative techniques would suffice to expose the crime.” 13
2 United States v. Kahn
scotus · 1974
green “simply designed to assure that wiretapping is not resorted to in situations where traditional investigative techniques would suffice to expose the crime.” 11
3 United States v. Giordano
scotus · 1974
green “routinely employed as the initial step in criminal investigation.” 8
4 United States v. Fabio Alonso, Pedro Izaguirre, Robert Derringer, Julio Ojeda
ca11 · 1984
green “to foreclose electronic surveillance until every other imaginable method of investigation has been unsuccessfully attempted, but simply to inform the issuing judge of the difficulties involved in the use of conventional techniques.” 3

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