aid and abet
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 336 U.S. 613 - Nye & Nissen v. United States · 1949Most cited · 2,948 citing opinions
In order to aid and abet another to commit a crime it is necessary that a defendant 'in some sort associate himself with the venture, that he participate in it as in something that he wishes to bring about, that he seek by his action to make it succeed.
How often courts cite the case defining “aid and abet”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “aid and abet” — 2,943 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.