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willful

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 314 U.S. 513 - United States v. Ragen · 1942Most cited · 501 citing opinions

A mind intent upon willful evasion is inconsistent with surprised innocence.

How often courts cite the case defining “willful”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “willful” — 501 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.