intent to defraud
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
impersonation statute
the words 'intent to defraud' in the context of this statute, do not require more than the defendants have, by artifice and deceit, sought to cause the deceived person to follow some course he would not have pursued but for the deceitful conduct.
How often courts cite the case defining “intent to defraud”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intent to defraud” — 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.