local crime
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 66 U.S. 484 - United States v. Jackalow · 1861Most cited · 39 citing opinions
Crimes committed against the laws of the United States out of the limits of a State are not local, but may be tried at such place as Congress shall designate by law, but are local if committed within the State.
How often courts cite the case defining “local crime”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “local crime” — 39 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.