The Supreme Court decisions in both cases held that the police may, in certain cases, search individuals or seize their property without a warrant. The Supreme court ruled that the police could conduct searches if they had probable cause and that the constitution does not prohibit that
The reason why state governments are better in focusing on the needs of the citizens they are ruling over than the country's federal government due to the reason that the state governments oversee smaller geographical issues than the country's federal government wherein their full concern is the whole country, unlike state governments, who show their concern to each of the states they are ruling over.