Boyd v. United States, , was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that “a search and seizure [was] equivalent [to] a compulsory production of a man's private papers” and that the search was “an 'unreasonable search and seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.”

In the published opinion, after citing Lord Camden's judgment in Entick v Carrington

Entick v Carrington

Entick v Carrington [1765] is a leading case in English law establishing the civil liberties of individuals and limiting the scope of executive power. The case has also been influential in other common law jurisdictions and was an important motivation for the Fourth Amendment to the United States...

, 19 How. St. Tr. 1029, Justice Bradley said (630):

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 116
• Mere evidence rule
  Mere evidence rule
  In the law of the United States, the mere evidence rule was a historical doctrine that defined the scope of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.-Origins:...
  
  
• Exclusionary rule
  Exclusionary rule
  The exclusionary rule is a legal principle in the United States, under constitutional law, which holds that evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is sometimes inadmissible for a criminal prosecution in a court of law...
  
  
• Entick v Carrington
  Entick v Carrington
  Entick v Carrington [1765] is a leading case in English law establishing the civil liberties of individuals and limiting the scope of executive power. The case has also been influential in other common law jurisdictions and was an important motivation for the Fourth Amendment to the United States...
  
  (1765)
• Gouled v. United States (1921)
• Griswold v. Connecticut
  Griswold v. Connecticut
  Griswold v. Connecticut, , was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives...
  
  (1965) (also involving "the privacies of life")
• Andresen v. Maryland
  Andresen v. Maryland
  Andresen v. Maryland, 427 U.S. 463 , was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that search of petitioner's offices for business records, their seizure, and subsequent introduction into evidence did not offend the Fifth Amendment's proscription that “[n]o person … shall be...
  
  (1976)
• Payton v. New York (1980) (citing Boyd)