public offense
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 567 U.S. 387 - Arizona v. United States · 2012Most cited · 293 citing opinions
conduct that is punishable by imprisonment or a fine according to the law of the State where the conduct occurred and that would be punishable under Arizona law had the conduct occurred in Arizona.
How often courts cite the case defining “public offense”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “public offense” — 291 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.