Calhoun v. Allen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[I]t is no where said, that there shall be no arrest without warrant. To have said so would have endangered the safety of society.”
• “These are 56 principles of the common law, essential to the welfare of society, and not intended to be altered or impaired by the constitution. The whole section indeed was nothing more than an affirmance of the common law, for general warrants have been decided to be illegal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).