gangster
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 451 - Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · 1939Most cited · 2,647 citing opinions
a member of a gang of roughs, hireling criminals, thieves, or the like.' Webster's New International Dictionary, 2d Ed. And the Oxford English Dictionary likewise defines the word 'gang' as 'any company of persons who go about together or act in concert (in modern use mainly for criminal purposes).' Such is plainly the legislative sense of the term.
How often courts cite the case defining “gangster”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “gangster” — 2,647 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.