Purposely
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 442 U.S. 510 - Sandstrom v. Montana · 1979Most cited · 6,466 citing opinions
follows: A person acts purposely with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense if it is his conscious object to engage in that conduct or to cause that result."
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How often courts cite the case defining “Purposely”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Purposely” — 6,464 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.