deliberateness
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 349 U.S. 190 - Emspak v. United States · 1955Most cited · 582 citing opinions
§ 192 contempt
the committee—by failing to meet these minimal procedural standards... did not adequately apprise petitioner that an answer was required notwithstanding his objections. And without such apprisal, there is lacking the element of deliberateness necessary for a conviction under § 192 for a refusal to answer.
How often courts cite the case defining “deliberateness”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “deliberateness” — 582 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.