8 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 91 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 Dalia v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dalia v. United States Anchor | green | “officers executing search warrants on occasion must damage property in order to perform their duty.” | 40 |
| 2 | United States v. Ramirez | green | “excessive or unnecessary destruction of property in the course of a search may violate the fourth amendment, even though the entry itself is lawful and the fruits of the search are not subject to suppression.” | 26 |
| 3 | United States v. Clara B. Penn, A/K/A Clara B. Alexander | green | “a warranted search is unreasonable if it exceeds in scope or intensity the terms of the warrant.” | 5 |
| 4 | United States v. Gene Szalkiewicz | green | “stored or acquired at different times and places.” | 4 |
| 5 | Joan Cody v. Keith Mello and Thomas Murray | green | “before any due process liability can be imposed for property damage occurring in a lawful search, it must be established that the police acted unreasonably or maliciously in bringing about the damage.” | 4 |
| 6 | United States v. Francis Joseph Reilly, AKA Ian MacCormick AKA Steven James Conner | green | “to excuse the failure to obtain a search warrant where the police had probable cause but simply did not attempt to obtain a warrant.” | 4 |
| 7 | United States v. Albert Lamont Hector, United States of America v. Albert Lamont Hector | green | “immediately after a search of a home,” | 4 |
| 8 | United States v. Ankeny | green | “so brief in time to be virtually the equivalent to a no-knock entry,” | 4 |
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.