offence
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 267 U.S. 87 - Ex parte Grossman · 1925Most cited · 455 citing opinions
those acts only which have been denounced as, such and made punishable by statute.
How often courts cite the case defining “offence”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “offence” — 452 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.