Cogdill v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Watkins v. Commonwealth (1989), Schneider v. Commonwealth (1985)
26 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on United States v. White · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · United States v. Harpel · United States v. Pui Kan Lam · Seventh District Committee v. Gunter
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A wire or oral communication shall be deemed to be intercepted ... in the jurisdiction where the communication is actually intercepted and the monitoring of such intercepted communication may be at any location within the Commonwealth of Virginia. For the purposes of this section, the definition of “intercept” means the acquisition of the contents of any wire or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical or other device.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a basic distinction between an interception of the contents of a communication on the one hand and a recording of the contents on the other. The former is an “aural acquisition,” an acquisition by overhearing; the latter is a recordation of what has been thus acquired. The Act proscribes the former when accomplished by use of a defined “device”; the Act does not proscribe the latter, even when accomplished by use of a “device”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have repeatedly held that, when the criminal design originates in the mind of the accused and, thereafter, the Commonwealth does no more than afford an opportunity for the commission of the crime, the defense of entrapment does not lie. Whether the criminal design originated with the accused or was first conceived by the police may, in some cases, be a question of fact for the jury. No such question exists in this case.”
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.