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United States v. Knotts 460 U.S. 276 is a 1983 United States Supreme Court case regarding the use of an electronic surveillance device. The defendants argued that the use of this device was a Fourth Amendment violation. The device in question was described as a beeper that could only be tracked from a short distance. During a single trip officers followed a car containing the beeper relying on beeper signal to determine the car’s final destination.