essential ingredient
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 346 U.S. 209 - Bridges v. United States · 1953Most cited · 329 citing opinions
Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act
It seeks to suspend the running of it only where fraud against the Government is an essential ingredient of the crime.
How often courts cite the case defining “essential ingredient”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “essential ingredient” — 329 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.