intent and innocent act
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 240 U.S. 391 - Badders v. United States · 1916Most cited · 687 citing opinions
Intent may make an otherwise innocent act criminal, if it is a step in a plot.
How often courts cite the case defining “intent and innocent act”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “intent and innocent act” — 687 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.