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.

• holding that statute providing for revocation “ ‘during, -the probationary term’. . . should be construed for revocation purposes as including the term beginning at the time probation is granted”
• stating that “absurdity is a result courts should view with disfavor” unless “a statute fairly leaves no room for construction to avoid such a result”
• affirming revocation when, prior to probationary term, appellant willfully left and failed to return to the place of confinement designated in his work release plan

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Byrd v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1991-10-15· cited 92×
• Com. v. Simmons, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-08-18· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Wendowski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 73×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-10-10· cited 37×
• State v. Sullivan
  Montana Supreme Court· 1982-02-25· cited 35×
• Mulky v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1982-10-01· cited 33×
• Tiitsman v. Black
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-06-10· cited 33×
• Sanker v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-05-17· cited 32×
• State v. Lopez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2007-03-09· cited 28×
• Short v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-12-08· cited 18×
• United States v. Robert Harris Cartwright, A/K/A William J. Cartwright
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-01-24· cited 17×
• Resper v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-06-10· cited 15×
• Sumpter v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1989-08-24· cited 13×
• State v. Dantzler
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-02-26· cited 13×
• Carradine v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1980-09-23· cited 13×
• Bates v. District of Columbia Board of Elections & Ethics
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-05-27· cited 12×
• Rivers v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1975-03-19· cited 8×
• In re A. W.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-01-30· cited 8×
• Jacobs v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-02-21· cited 7×
• Neal v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1990-03-12· cited 6×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gagnon v. Scarpelli
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 5,755×
• Burns v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-12-05· cited 523×
• Martin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-01-15· cited 53×
• James v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1944-01-25· cited 29×
• Cooper v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1946-08-30· cited 14×
• Cline v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1940-12-20· cited 12×
• Davis v. Parker
  D. Delaware· 1968-12-09· cited 10×
• Reed v. United States
  S.D. Texas· 1964-12-21· cited 1×