service-connected offense
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 401 U.S. 355 - Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · 1971Most cited · 840 citing opinions
when a serviceman is charged with an offense committed within or at the geographical boundary of a military post and violative of the security of a person or of property there, that offense may be tried by a court-martial. Expressing it another way: a serviceman's crime against the person of an individual upon the base or against property on the base is 'service connected,' within the meaning of that requirement as specified in O'Callahan.
How often courts cite the case defining “service-connected offense”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “service-connected offense” — 840 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.