impersonation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 318 U.S. 702 - United States v. Lepowitch · 1943Most cited · 201 citing opinions
of government official
Government officials are impersonated by any persons who 'assume to act in the pretended character.
How often courts cite the case defining “impersonation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “impersonation” — 201 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.