State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Policy considerations and case law support the conclusion that a credit card number is included in the definition of “credit card.” As the Arkansas Supreme Court recognized in Patterson v. State, “[i]t is the use of the account numbers on a credit card which gives the plastic card any credit value.” Most people are aware that once they memorize the number on their plastic credit card, they no longer need the plastic card to make long-distance telephone calls or to purchase other goods or services over the telephone or across the Internet. In these transactions, merchants and buyers do not meet face-to-face, and merchants do not demand proof that the buyer is holding a plastic card. Rather, the buyer’s knowledge of the credit card number is what allows the buyer to make these purchases on credit. Physical possession of the plastic card is unnecessary, for the value of the card resides in the number.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rhea