continuing offense
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 161 - United States v. Midstate Horticultural Co. · 1939Most cited · 175 citing opinions
A continuing offense is a continuous, unlawful act or series of acts set on foot by a single impulse and operated by an unintermittent force, however long a time it may occupy. Where such an act or series of acts runs through several jurisdictions, the offense is committed and cognizable in each.
How often courts cite the case defining “continuing offense”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “continuing offense” — 175 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.