United States v. Morganfield

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding convictions under § 1344(2) when defendant made small initial deposits to open checking accounts in names of phony businesses, obtained checks for those accounts, and wrote checks to fictitious employees in amounts exceeding initial deposits
• finding bank had risk of loss when it was presented with a check from an account with insufficient funds because testimony showed the bank might honor the check even when an account had insufficient funds and “[t]hat possibility create[d] a sufficient risk of loss”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Valencia
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-03-10· cited 373×
• United States v. Mendoza
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-03-26· cited 92×
• United States v. Burns
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-05-08· cited 91×
• United States v. Sherrie Bennett
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-10-16· cited 32×
• United States v. Edelkind
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-04-15· cited 26×
• United States v. Dennis Gray Williams
  Eleventh Circuit· 2015-06-22· cited 19×
• United States v. Williams
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-08-04· cited 6×
• United States v. Jones
  Second Circuit· 2020-07-16· cited 5×
• United States v. Sanders
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-03-27· cited 4×
• Brewster v. McNeil
  S.D. Florida· 2009-06-12· cited 2×
• United States v. Singleton
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-03-10
• United States v. Roen
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-01-04

Cites

41 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1947-06-09· cited 771×
• Williams v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-29· cited 389×
• United States v. Martin Gonzalez Munoz
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-09-09· cited 308×
• United States v. Parker
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-01-16· cited 186×
• United States v. David M. Saks, United States of America v. James Doyle Spruill
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-06-23· cited 137×
• United States v. Tomblin
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-12-27· cited 128×
• United States v. Terry James Pierre and Otis Harris, III
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-04-13· cited 121×
• United States v. Michael A. Riley
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-07-09· cited 118×
• United States v. Lankford
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-12-30· cited 114×
• United States v. David Samuel Iredia
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-01· cited 111×
• United States v. Simon Edward Heath and Paul Sau-Ki Cheng
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-09-29· cited 110×
• United States v. Gutierrez-Farias
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-06-12· cited 99×
• United States v. Bruce Bonnett
  Tenth Circuit· 1989-06-07· cited 99×
• United States v. Luis Enrique Insaulgarat
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-07-19· cited 81×
• United States v. Cavin
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-12-02· cited 78×
• United States v. Charleszette Ardel Brandon
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-08-02· cited 69×
• United States v. Bebe Fazia Laljie
  Second Circuit· 1999-07-14· cited 62×
• United States v. Boris Granik, Alexander Iskolsky, and Semyon Bumagin
  Second Circuit· 2004-10-15· cited 53×
• United States v. Susan Carol Briggs
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-08-02· cited 50×
• United States v. Darnell Williams
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-08-28· cited 47×