implied malice
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 186 U.S. 413 - Hotema v. United States · 1902Most cited · 125 citing opinions
that in the case charged the evidence shows that the party charged committed the act, and that it was intentional and unlawful, that is, without justifiable excuse, and the evidence fails to reveal the motive why the person committed the act.
How often courts cite the case defining “implied malice”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “implied malice” — 125 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.