falsely made
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 498 U.S. 103 - Moskal v. United States · 1990Most cited · 1,437 citing opinions
the character of the securities being transported.
How the Supreme Court has restated “falsely made”
Each Supreme Court definition of “falsely made,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the case defining “falsely made”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “falsely made” — 1,422 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 3 definitions, chronological · 1990–1990
genuine documents containing false information is supported by Congress' purpose in enacting § 2314.
the manner of making is also evident from the fifth clause of § 2314, which forbids the interstate transportation of "any tool, implement, or thing used or fitted to be used in falsely making, forging, altering, or counterfeiting any security or tax stamps." This obviously refers to the tools of counterfeiting, and not to the tools of misrepresentation.