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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”

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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

  1. 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.

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