Wood v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the statutory offense of extortion “consists of a threat or accusation coupled with an extortion of money or other benefit”
• appellant charged with threatening to injure the character of another
• appellant charged with threatening to injure the character of another

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Daung Sam v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-11-19· cited 35×
• Daye v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-02-20· cited 19×
• Phillips v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-09-15· cited 7×
• Williams v. Corbett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-08· cited 1×
• Vanegas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-07· cited 1×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Boyle v. Landry
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-23· cited 410×
• Sutphin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-03· cited 228×
• Landry v. Daley
  N.D. Illinois· 1968-03-01· cited 214×
• Cameron v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 50×
• Russo v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 36×
• Mitchell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1880-11-15· cited 14×
• People v. Fox
  California Court of Appeal· 1958-02-04· cited 9×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1956-11-28· cited 8×
• People v. Downey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-12-20· cited 8×
• State v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1906-12-20· cited 2×