defraud
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 483 U.S. 350 - McNally v. United States · 1987Most cited · 3,063 citing opinions
something different in § 1341 (first enacted in 1872) than what it means in § 371 (first enacted in 1867).
How often courts cite the case defining “defraud”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “defraud” — 3,055 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.