Malicious
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 385 U.S. 39 - Adderley v. Florida · 1966Most cited · 1,753 citing opinions
wrongful, you remember back in the original charge, the State has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt there was a malicious and mischievous intent.
How often courts cite the case defining “Malicious”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Malicious” — 1,745 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.