burglary
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 587 U.S. 645 - Quarles v. United States · 2019Most cited · 57 citing opinions
unlawful or unprivileged entry in- to, or remaining in, a building or structure, with intent to commit a crime," Taylor v. United States, 495 U. S. 575, 599 (emphasis added).
How the Supreme Court has restated “burglary”
Each Supreme Court definition of “burglary,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “burglary”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “burglary” — 80 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 3 definitions, chronological · 2018–2019
- ORIGINAL
a kind of generic crime rather than to the defendant's behavior on a particular occasion.
unlawful or unprivileged entry into, or remaining in, a building or structure, with intent to commit a crime," Taylor v. United States, 495 U. S. 575, 599 (emphasis added).