Public wrong
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 1 U.S. 335 - Respublica v. Teischer · 1788Most cited · 5 citing opinions
indictability
whatever amounts to a public wrong may be made the subject of an indictment.
How often courts cite the case defining “Public wrong”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Public wrong” — 5 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.