sufficiently definite
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 342 U.S. 337 - Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · 1952Most cited · 1,799 citing opinions
A criminal statute must be sufficiently definite to give notice of the required conduct to one who would avoid its penalties, and to guide the judge in its application and the lawyer in defending one charged with its violation.
How often courts cite the case defining “sufficiently definite”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sufficiently definite” — 1,796 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.