scheme to defraud
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 272 U.S. 620 - Fasulo v. United States · 1926Most cited · 260 citing opinions
The phrase is a broad one and extends to a great variety of transactions. But broad as are the words 'to defraud,' they do not include threat and coercion through fear or force. The attempt was by intimidation and not by anything in the nature of deceit or fraud as known to the law or as generally understood.
How often courts cite the case defining “scheme to defraud”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “scheme to defraud” — 260 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.