purpose
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 322 U.S. 369 - Mortensen v. United States · 1944Most cited · 519 citing opinions
Mann Act · construing 18 U.S.C. § 2421 · White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)
To constitute a violation of the Act, it is essential that the interstate transportation have for its object or be the means of effecting or facilitating the proscribed activities. An intention that the women or girls shall engage in the conduct outlawed by Section 2 must be found to exist before the conclusion of the interstate journey and must be the dominant motive of such interstate movement. And the transportation must be designed to bring about such result. Without that necessary intention and motivation, immoral conduct during or following the journey is insufficient to subject the transporter to the penalties of the Act.
How often courts cite the cases defining “purpose”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “purpose” — 751 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 · 1944–1969
more than mere knowledge, undoubtedly present in nearly every case.