evil tendency
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 315 U.S. 447 - D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · 1942Most cited · 4,097 citing opinions
banking fraud rule
It is the 'evil tendency' of the acts to contravene the policy governing banking transactions which lies at the root of the rule.
How often courts cite the case defining “evil tendency”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “evil tendency” — 4,062 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.