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Wilful misapplication

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 218 U.S. 532 - United States v. Fritz Augustus Heinze · 1910Most cited · 78 citing opinions

bank funds

the 'misapplication made an offense by this statute means a misapplication for the use, benefit, or gain of the party charged,' or someone other than the association. And further, that to constitute the offense 'there must be a conversion to its own use or the use of someone else of the moneys and funds of the association by the party charged.

How often courts cite the case defining “Wilful misapplication”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Wilful misapplication” — 78 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.