static conformity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 355 U.S. 286 - United States v. Sharpnack · 1958Most cited · 462 citing opinions
Due to the limitation of the Assimilative Crimes Act of 1825 to state laws in force at the time of its own enactment, the Act gradually lost much of its effectiveness in maintaining current conformity with state criminal laws. This result has been well called one of static conformity.
How often courts cite the case defining “static conformity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “static conformity” — 458 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.