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Morissette v. United States

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
342 U.S. 246
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
164 of 164
Citing cases (total)
164
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Morissette v. United States is good law: all 164 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. Later courts applied its presumption of criminal intent, its distinction for some regulatory offenses, and its rule for interpreting familiar legal terms.
More on how this was screened

United States v. Alonzo Thornton applied Morissette's rule about intent for criminal conviction and held it inapplicable to a sentencing enhancement; that is the rule's own boundary, not a new limitation. The complete texts of nine other opinions contain no identifiable citation to Morissette; they provide no basis for an adverse treatment entry ().

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

164 later cases cite Morissette v. United States; 164 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Every one of the 164 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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