Wiseman v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Solicitation, or inciting to crime, does not proceed to the point of some overt act in the commission of crime. When it proceeds to this point it becomes an attempt to commit crime and is indictable as such.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hutchinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-06-18· cited 58×
• State v. Wilson
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1959-11-12· cited 31×
• Huffman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 27×
• BELTRAN
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 1992-07-01· cited 27×
• Loudon Hospital Center v. Robert B. Stroude, M.D.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-10-09· cited 24×
• Ford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-04-24· cited 20×
• LOUDOUN HOSP. CENTER v. Stroube
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-10-09· cited 15×
• Ostrander v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-03-18· cited 7×
• Webb v. Regua Ltd. Partnership
  E.D. Virginia· 1985-12-30· cited 7×
• State v. Hansford
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-02-22· cited 4×
• State v. Reinoehl
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1949-11-04· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Imschweiler
  Berks County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1938-04-28
• Williamson v. Loredo
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1985-06-21
• Commonwealth v. Holdaway
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1993-06-18
• Adam Marcus Griffin v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-02-13
• Ray Allen Atkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-08-12

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Baller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1885-06-27· cited 19×
• Cox v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1876-06-15· cited 19×
• State v. Davis
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1905-05-02· cited 2×