People v. Van Alstyne

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• consulting the legislative history after finding that the statutory definition of marijuana as Cannabis sativa L. was ambiguous despite its specificity

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Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hale v. Morgan
  California Supreme Court· 1978-09-28· cited 357×
• People v. Rucker
  California Supreme Court· 1980-01-29· cited 79×
• People v. Aston
  California Supreme Court· 1985-08-08· cited 60×
• People v. Partlow
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-09-05· cited 35×
• State v. Vail
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-01-12· cited 34×
• People v. St. Amour
  California Court of Appeal· 1980-03-20· cited 27×
• People v. Bush
  California Court of Appeal· 2017-01-11· cited 27×
• People v. Palmer
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-04-24· cited 19×
• People v. James P.
  California Court of Appeal· 1981-02-03· cited 19×
• Pennisi v. Department of Fish & Game
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-09-26· cited 19×
• Kemp v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-01-06· cited 18×
• People v. Clifton
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-08-15· cited 16×
• People v. Harris
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-03-06· cited 14×
• People v. Hamilton
  California Court of Appeal· 1980-04-24· cited 11×
• People v. Powell
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-02-27· cited 7×
• People v. Spurlock
  California Court of Appeal· 1980-11-19· cited 7×
• Cpr for Skid Row v. City of Los Angeles
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-03-10· cited 7×
• Winters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-06-25· cited 6×
• Pueblo v. Ortiz Pepín
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1977-01-17· cited 6×
• State v. Boggess
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-11-10· cited 3×

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Leary v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Select Base Materials, Inc. v. Board of Equalization
  California Supreme Court· 1959-02-20· cited 513×
• People v. Ibarra
  California Supreme Court· 1963-11-14· cited 498×
• People v. Moran
  California Supreme Court· 1970-01-27· cited 171×
• United States v. Geoffrey Honneus
  First Circuit· 1975-04-28· cited 148×
• People v. Vann
  California Supreme Court· 1974-07-31· cited 102×
• United States v. Steve A. Walton
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-01-23· cited 53×
• United States v. John Moore
  Third Circuit· 1971-07-23· cited 52×
• United States v. Mitchell Rothberg
  Second Circuit· 1973-06-08· cited 52×
• People v. Pijal
  California Court of Appeal· 1973-07-26· cited 46×
• Patty v. Board of Medical Examiners
  California Supreme Court· 1973-04-19· cited 40×
• United States v. Gaines
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-02-15· cited 36×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Court of Appeal· 1968-06-18· cited 33×
• People v. Sloss
  California Court of Appeal· 1973-08-28· cited 22×
• United States v. Moore
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1970-06-22· cited 22×

Other cases named People v. Van Alstyne

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• People v. Van Alstyne
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2023-10-26· cited 5×
• People v. Van Alstyne
  New York Supreme Court· 1894-06-20· cited 2×
• People v. Van Alstyne
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1909-07-06