Wilder v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Goins v. Commonwealth (1996), 20 Va. App. 133 - Sandoval v. Commonwealth (1995)
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Washington v. Commonwealth · Merritt v. Commonwealth · Livingston v. Commonwealth · Evans v. Commonwealth · Cheatham v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person shall be guilty of credit card or credit card number theft when: (a) He takes, obtains or withholds a credit card or credit card number from the person, possession, custody or control of another without the cardholder’s consent. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did feloniously and unlawfully have in his possession two or more stolen credit cards issued to Mrs. John W. Cowan, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“who, with knowledge that it has been so taken, obtained or withheld, receives the credit card or credit card number.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.