fraud under the mail statutes
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 338 U.S. 269 - Reilly v. Pinkus · 1949Most cited · 370 citing opinions
Proof of fraudulent purposes is essential—an 'actual intent to deceive.' ... fraud under the mail statutes is not established merely by proving that an incorrect statement was made.
How often courts cite the case defining “fraud under the mail statutes”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fraud under the mail statutes” — 370 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.