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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.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Kahn Anchor | 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 | 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 | green | “routinely employed as the initial step in criminal investigation.” | 8 |
| 4 | United States v. Fabio Alonso, Pedro Izaguirre, Robert Derringer, Julio Ojeda | 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 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.