Knowingly
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 390 U.S. 629 - Ginsberg v. New York · 1968Most cited · 2,162 citing opinions
having general knowledge of, or reason to know, or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry of both
How often courts cite the cases defining “Knowingly”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Knowingly” — 2,365 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1907–1968
- ORIGINAL
Where by law a responsibility is made to arise from the violation of a statute knowingly, proof of something more than negligence is required; that is, that the violation must in effect be intentional.
statutory