petty offenses
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 301 U.S. 492 - Duke v. United States · 1937Most cited · 102 citing opinions
all offenses the penalty for which does not exceed confinement in a common jail, without hard labor for a period of six months, or a fine of not more than $500, or both, shall be deemed to be petty offenses; and all such petty offenses may be prosecuted upon information or complaint.
How often courts cite the case defining “petty offenses”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “petty offenses” — 102 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.