mail fraud orders
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 333 U.S. 178 - Donaldson v. Read Magazine, Inc. · 1948Most cited · 355 citing opinions
The purpose of mail fraud orders is not punishment, but prevention of future injury to the public by denying the use of the mails to aid a fraudulent scheme.
How often courts cite the case defining “mail fraud orders”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “mail fraud orders” — 355 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.