criminal statute definiteness
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 314 U.S. 306 - Pierce v. United States · 1941Most cited · 171 citing opinions
a comparable judicial enlargement of a criminal act by interpretation is at war with a fundamental concept of the common law that crimes must be defined with appropriate definiteness
How often courts cite the case defining “criminal statute definiteness”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “criminal statute definiteness” — 171 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.