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makes any false entry

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 300 U.S. 41 - United States v. Giles · 1937Most cited · 225 citing opinions

banking statute

The word 'make' has many meanings, among them 'To cause to exist, appear or occur.' To hold the statute broad enough to include deliberate action from which a false entry by an innocent intermediary necessarily follows gives to the words employed their fair meaning and is in accord with the evident intent of Congress.

How often courts cite the case defining “makes any false entry”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “makes any false entry” — 225 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.