Evade
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 325 U.S. 478 - Keegan v. United States · 1945Most cited · 139 citing opinions
To escape; to slip away; to take refuge in evasion; to use artifice in avoidance." "Resist" is defined as, "To withstand; to oppose by physical, mental, or moral power." "Refuse" is defined as, "To decline to accept; to reject; to decline to submit to or undergo." Now the surest way of rendering oneself incapable of evading military service, of slipping away or escaping it, is to register.
How often courts cite the case defining “Evade”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Evade” — 139 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1945–1945
- ORIGINAL
the Act distinguishes evasion, a species of fraudulent conduct, from mere neglect of duty and from forcible and violent interference or resistance
Selective Service Act