6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 51 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 | “the manner in which a warrant is executed is subject to later judicial review as to its reasonableness.” | 19 |
| 2 | Dalia v. United States | green | “it is generally left to the discretion of the executing officers to determine the details of how best to proceed with the performance of a search authorized by warrant.” | 11 |
| 3 | Andresen v. Maryland | green | “in searches for papers, it is certain that some innocuous documents will be examined, at least cursorily, in order to determine whether they are, in fact, among those papers authorized to be seized.” | 10 |
| 4 | United States v. William Riley, Norman Burnett, Jeffrey Sizemore, Vincent Mazza | green | “once a category of seizable papers has been adequately described, with the description delineated in part by an illustrative list of seizable items, the fourth amendment is not violated because the officers executing the warrant must exercise some minimal judgment as to whether …” | 4 |
| 5 | United States v. Shi Yan Liu, A/K/A Simon Liu, Jie Hu and Shao Zhen Lin | green | “the rationale for blanket suppression is that a search that greatly exceeds the bounds of a warrant and is not conducted in good faith is essentially indistinguishable from a general search.” | 4 |
| 6 | United States v. Fredderick D. Jones, Also Known as Frederick Jones and Fredrick Jones | green | “the officers executing the warrant employed a methodology that is, in light of the values protected by the fourth amendment and the exigencies of the situation, a reasonable one.” | 3 |
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