United States v. Wright

How courts have described this case

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

• defining honest services fraud in the context of a bribery theory
• vacating counts of conviction for traditional mail fraud due to prejudicial spillover where “much of the evidence at this trial [for honest services fraud and traditional mail fraud] would be inadmissible at a hypothetical trial on traditional mail fraud alone”
• “The inducement from the official is criminal if it is implied from his words and actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Joan Kedra v. Richard Schroeter
  Third Circuit· 2017-11-28· cited 217×
• United States v. Botti
  Second Circuit· 2013-03-28· cited 100×
• United States v. William Jefferson
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-03-26· cited 87×
• United States v. Ashley Andrews
  Third Circuit· 2012-06-04· cited 86×
• United States v. Mark Ciavarella, Jr.
  Third Circuit· 2013-05-24· cited 86×
• Allstate Insurance Company v. Northfield Medical Center P.C.(076069) (Morris County and Statewide)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2017-05-04· cited 71×
• Klein v. Madison
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2019-04-10· cited 70×
• United States v. Gary Solomon
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-06-05· cited 63×
• United States v. McDonough
  First Circuit· 2013-08-21· cited 43×
• United States v. Steven Terry
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-02-14· cited 30×
• Francis v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-07-31· cited 20×
• In Re: Leon A. Kendall v.
  Third Circuit· 2013-04-03· cited 18×
• United States v. Christopher Wright
  Third Circuit· 2015-01-08· cited 15×
• United States v. Correia
  First Circuit· 2022-11-28· cited 15×
• United States v. Louis Willis
  Third Circuit· 2016-12-13· cited 14×
• United States v. Robert Harra, Jr.
  Third Circuit· 2021-01-12· cited 14×
• Prince v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-09-13· cited 14×
• Alexander v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-01-29· cited 12×
• James v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-12-12· cited 11×
• United States v. Lopez-Martinez
  First Circuit· 2021-04-07· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Neder v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 5,157×
• United States v. Gaudin
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-19· cited 2,553×
• Skilling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 987×
• Evans v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-05-26· cited 423×
• United States v. Michael Dent
  Third Circuit· 1998-07-06· cited 399×
• Hedgpeth v. Pulido
  Supreme Court· 2008-12-02· cited 390×
• United States v. Pungitore
  Third Circuit· 1990-08-01· cited 355×
• United States v. Walter v. Cross, A/K/A Bobo Walter v. Cross, United States of America v. Jules C. Melograne
  Third Circuit· 2002-10-18· cited 283×
• United States v. Sun-Diamond Growers of California
  Supreme Court· 1999-04-27· cited 229×
• United States v. Leonard A. Pelullo
  Third Circuit· 1994-03-22· cited 229×
• United States v. Kemp
  Third Circuit· 2007-08-27· cited 210×
• United States v. Stefan E. Brodie
  Third Circuit· 2005-04-12· cited 189×
• United States v. Jimenez
  Third Circuit· 2008-01-14· cited 183×
• United States v. Lore
  Third Circuit· 2005-12-02· cited 175×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1996-08-16· cited 161×
• UNITED STATES of America, v. Frank SERAFINI; United States of America, v. Frank Serafini
  Third Circuit· 2000-12-01· cited 154×
• United States v. Lee
  Third Circuit· 2010-07-14· cited 137×
• United States v. Frank Antico
  Third Circuit· 2001-11-28· cited 121×
• United States v. Tamika Riley
  Third Circuit· 2010-09-16· cited 120×