status offense
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 370 U.S. 660 - Robinson v. State of California · 1962Most cited · 3,839 citing opinions
we deal with a statute which makes the 'status' of narcotic addiction a criminal offense, for which the offender may be prosecuted 'at any time before he reforms.' California has said that a person can be continuously guilty of this offense, whether or not he has ever used or possessed any narcotics within the State, and whether or not he has been guilty of any antisocial behavior there.
How often courts cite the case defining “status offense”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “status offense” — 3,833 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.