Unwarranted Warrants? An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review in Search and Seizure
Vol. 138 No. 8
Every year, police perform searches governed by the Fourth Amendment on hundreds of thousands of individuals and their property throughout the United States. Many of the academy’s most decorated scholars have focused on the genesis and jurisprudential nature of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. Surprisingly, we know almost nothing about how the Fourth Amendment regulates searches and how searches actually work in practice.In this Article, we pull back the curtain on the search and seizure process by presenting the largest quantitative study of warrants of any kind.