Wright v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that federal forgery statutes that do not define forgery should be given their “common, ordinary meaning,” which requires an “intent to defraud”
• “the genuine making of a writing for the purpose of defrauding another is not forgery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moskal v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-12-03· cited 742×
• Gilbert v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 147×
• Wayne S. Marteney v. United States of America, C. M. Henderson v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1954-11-03· cited 112×
• Vizcarra-Ayala v. Mukasey
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-01-23· cited 112×
• State v. Schoelerman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-01-20· cited 106×
• United States v. Daniel Michael Daly, Harold Dean Klemp, Joseph Diaz, Gene Floyd Criswell, and Michael Richard Ryan
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-10-04· cited 79×
• United States v. Thomas J. Faust
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-06-28· cited 67×
• Francisco Jose Morales-Alegria v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-06-06· cited 63×
• Martyn v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1949-09-21· cited 29×
• John Dyer Carr v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1960-06-08· cited 18×
• Irvin Hall v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-02-08· cited 16×
• United States v. Amy Everston Jones
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-06-13· cited 16×
• United States v. Michael Eugene Price and James Terrence Price
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-08-19· cited 13×
• United States v. Wilson W. Brown
  Second Circuit· 1957-07-29· cited 11×
• United States v. Robert Dahle Sparrow
  Tenth Circuit· 1980-01-10· cited 10×
• Rudolph Preston Melvin v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1963-05-02· cited 9×
• United States v. Greever
  District of Columbia· 1953-12-07· cited 8×
• Betty Asher v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1973-06-14· cited 7×
• United States v. Gallagher
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1950-12-29· cited 7×
• George Gallion v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1967-11-30· cited 5×