2014 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices.

It is not clearly established constitutional law that a police officer must begin at a residence's front door to employ the "knock and talk" exception to the warrant requirement.

The lower court therefore erred in ruling that the defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity, in a lawsuit alleging they unlawfully entered the plaintiffs' property in violation of the Fourth Amendment by going into their backyard and onto their deck without a warrant.

The Ninth Circuit instead erred in granting relief by misapplying Herring v. United States, which involved a complete denial of a summation instead of, as in this case, a limitation on it.

The lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for substitution of counsel, by not applying the "interests of justice" standards set forth in Martel v. Clair.

Alito filed a dissent, joined by Thomas, arguing that the one-year deadline for the habeas corpus petition may only be unenforceable under a few extraordinary situations, and the attorney error made in this case should not be one of them.

Alito also wanted the Court to review the question of the petitioner's entitlement to the non-enforcement of the deadline, rather than only address the counsel substitution issue.

The Court ruled that North Carolina's nonconsensual satellite-based monitoring program, which it had ordered a recidivist sex offender to submit to for the rest of his life, constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment.

Under United States v. Cronic, a defendant's Sixth Amendment rights are presumed to have been violated if he is denied counsel assistance during a critical stage of his trial.