To what extent does the supreme court balance individual rights with the common good?

It is impossible to describe the attempts of the Supreme Court to balance individual rights with the common good in the few paragraphs allowed here. A set of books exists entitled, "The United States Code Annotated." It contains the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Supreme Court Decisions covering those laws. The book for the fourth amendment is several inches thick. This covers various situations where a search is legal and where it is not legal. The Supreme Court realizes that the Government must search places to discover criminal activity. The Supreme Court realizes that people should not be subjected to unreasonable searches. You can read several inches of legal writing to discover the answer to your question on one issue.