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  • Miles v. Thorne

    38 Cal. 335 · California Supreme Court · Jul 1, 1869

    That the road was completed and a toll-gate *337 erected in the latter part of the year 1862, and the rates of toll established by the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, in accordance with the conditions of the … persons entrusted with the high functions of legislation, by secret combinations, or to create or bring into operation undue influences of any kind, have all the injurious effects of a direct fraud on the public” (Marshall v.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Rivieccio v. Bothan

    27 Cal. 2d 621 · California Supreme Court · Feb 1, 1946

    (Aldrich v. Aldrich, 203 Cal. 433, 437 [ 264 P. 754 ]; Stern v. Judson, 163 Cal. 726, 735 [ 127 P. 38 ]; Doyle v. Hampton, 159 Cal. 729, 733 [ 116 P. 39 ]; Parsons v. Weis, 144 Cal. 410, 419 [ 77 P. 1007 ]; Dunlap v. … (Austin v. Hallmark Oil Co., 21 Cal.2d 718, 734 [ 134 P.2d 777 ] ; Fry v. Board of Education, 17 Cal.2d 753, 761 [ 112 P.2d 229 ].)

    Cited 24 timesPublished
  • Lake v. Reed

    16 Cal. 4th 448 · California Supreme Court · Aug 7, 1997

    (Bixby v. … J., Mosk, J., Kennard, J., Baxter, J., Chin, J., and Brown, J., concurred. Appellant’s petition for a rehearing was denied October 22, 1997.

    Cited 152 timesPublished
  • People v. Scott

    16 Cal. 3d 242 · California Supreme Court · Feb 24, 1976

    In People v. … Lastly he looked inside a brown paper bag on defendant’s nearby suitcase, and found two cans of beer and a tobacco tin containing white tablets later identified as LSD.

    Cited 33 timesPublished
  • Ames v. Southern Pacific Co.

    141 Cal. 728 · California Supreme Court · Jan 21, 1904

    Co. v. … (See, also, Peck v. New York Cent. etc. R. R. Co., 70 N. Y. 587 ; McRae v. Wilmington etc. R. R. Co., 88 N. C. 532 ; 1 Wright v. California Cent. Ry. Co., 78 Cal. 360 .)

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • People v. Penunuri

    233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 324 · California Supreme Court · May 31, 2018

    Brown (2003) 31 Cal.4th 518, 541 (Brown), italics in original.) … (Brown, supra, 31 Cal.4th at p. 541; see also People v.

    Cited 228 timesPublished
  • Blanton v. Womancare, Inc.

    38 Cal. 3d 396 · California Supreme Court · Mar 25, 1985

    In Gagnon Co., Inc. v. … Respondents cite Church v.

    Cited 151 timesPublished
  • Stout v. Turney

    22 Cal. 3d 718 · California Supreme Court · Nov 30, 1978

    Board of Trade (1958) 164 Cal.App.2d 636, 651-652 [ 331 P.2d 89 ].) … (See also Snelson v.

    Cited 109 timesPublished
  • Lucas v. Rea

    7 Cal. Unrep. 363 · California Supreme Court · Mar 9, 1909

    In Reed v. … Wilson v. Nugent, 125 Cal. 280 , 57 Pac. 1008 , Buell v. Brown, 131 Cal. 158 , 63 Pac. 167 , and Nofziger Bros. Lumber Co. v. Shafer, 2 Cal. App. 219 , 83 Pac. 284 , are to the same effect.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • People v. Hill

    70 Cal. 2d 678 · California Supreme Court · Apr 9, 1969

    (People v. Downer, 57 Cal.2d 800, 813 [16] [ 22 Cal.Rptr. 347 , 372 P.2d 107 ]; People v. Watson, 244 Cal.App.2d 89, 96 [5] [ 52 Cal.Rptr. 821 ]; People v. Lugo, 220 Cal.App.2d 54, 58-59 [2] [ 33 Cal.Rptr. 572 ].) … She was 5'5" tall, had light brown hair and freckles, which “you couldn’t notice from far away.” He grabbed her from behind around the neck with his right forearm. Mrs.

    Cited 76 timesPublished
  • Briggs v. California Employment Commission

    28 Cal. 2d 50 · California Supreme Court · Apr 23, 1946

    Also, it is asserted, the court committed prejudicial error in allowing a trial de novo and refusing to accord the decision of the administrative board the weight to which it is entitled. … (Garrison v. State of California, 64 Cal.App.2d 820, 824 [ 149 P.2d 711 ]; see: California Emp. Com. v. Bates, 24 Cal.2d 432 [150 P.2d 192]; California Emp. Com. v. Los Angeles etc.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Morrissey v. Gray

    160 Cal. 390 · California Supreme Court · Jul 31, 1911

    I. 628, [ 10 Atl. 653 ]; Scruggs v. Scruggs, 46 Mo. 271 ; Shenandoah Valley R. R. Co. v. Ashby’s Trustees, 86 Va. 232 , [ 19 Am. St. Rep. 898 , 9 S. E. 1003 ]; Briggs v. Hodgdon, 78 Me. 514 , [ 7 Atl. 387 ]; Wilkins v. … Tourtelott, 28 Kan. 589 [825]; Luttrell v. Martin, 112 N. C. 593 , [ 17 S. E. 573 ]; Herman v. Santee, 103 Cal. 519 , [ 42 Am. St. Rep. 145 , 37 Pac. 509 ] ; Woodward v. Brown, 119 Cal. 283 , [ 63 Am. St.

    Cited 21 timesPublished
  • Ryan v. Commission on Judicial Performance

    45 Cal. 3d 518 · California Supreme Court · May 31, 1988

    (Wenger v. Commission on Judicial Performance (1981) 29 Cal.3d 615, 622 [ 175 Cal.Rptr. 420 , 630 P.2d 954 ]; Spruance v. … As we stated in Gonzalez v.

    Cited 47 timesPublished
  • People v. Thomas

    52 Cal. 4th 336 · California Supreme Court · Jul 28, 2011

    Holding a gun, defendant ordered her guests Ronald Doss and Alton Brown to empty their pockets. Doss drew his own gun and the men exchanged gunfire. Defendant was hit. … Id., at 434.‟ (Uttecht v. Brown (2007) 551 U.S. 1, 7; see People v. Wilson (2008) 44 Cal.4th 758, 779 (Wilson).)” (Bramit, supra, 46 Cal.4th at p. 1235.)

    Cited 265 timesPublished
  • People v. Lenart

    12 Cal. Rptr. 3d 592 · California Supreme Court · May 6, 2004

    During that search, the officers seized from the kitchen floor a brown paper grocery bag containing discarded coin roll wrappers and charred fragments of paper. … J., Baxter, J., Werdegar, J., Chin, J., Brown, J., and Moreno, J., concurred.

    Cited 208 timesPublished
  • Heard v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n

    25 Cal. 2d 322 · California Supreme Court · Dec 1, 1944

    Code, §§ 100, 101, 103,105; Estate of Puett, 1 Cal.2d 131, 133 [ 33 P.2d 825 ] ; see Eaton v. … Brown, 193 U.S. 411, 413 [ 24 S.Ct. 487 , 48 L.Ed. 730 ] ; Rest.: Property: Future Interests, parts 3 and 4, § 241, comment (a) and comments on subsee. (2), § 242, comments (a), (b) and (c); Wigmore, Evidence (2d ed.) §§

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Richards v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.

    14 Cal. 4th 985 · California Supreme Court · Jan 23, 1997

    Owens-Illinois notes we held in Potter v. … State Board of Education (1962) 57 Cal.2d 167, 179 [ 18 Cal.Rptr. 369 , 367 P.2d 865 ].)

    Abrogated by statute, as recognized in Myers v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc.Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Gadda v. State Bar

    50 Cal. 3d 344 · California Supreme Court · Mar 15, 1990

    Petitioner appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, but the board upheld the immigration judge’s decision, noting that no application for asylum had been made. … (See Hawk v. State Bar, supra, at p. 602.) V.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Parker v. Womack

    37 Cal. 2d 116 · California Supreme Court · May 8, 1951

    In Polk v. City of Los Angeles, 26 Cal.2d 519 [ 159 P.2d 931 ], and Jolley v. … Corp., 25 Cal.2d 165 [ 153 P.2d 338 ]; Brown v. George Pepperdine Foundation, 23 Cal.2d 256 [ 143 P.2d 929 ]; Copley v. Putter, 93 Cal.App.2d 453 [ 207 P.2d 876 ]; Jones v. Scurlock, 96 Cal.App.2d 201 [ 214 P.2d 599 ].)

    Overruled in part by Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co., 49 Cal. 2d 652 (1958)Cited 70 timesPublished
  • People v. Milward

    52 Cal. 4th 580 · California Supreme Court · Aug 18, 2011

    (People v. Reed, supra, 38 Cal.4th at p. 1227.) … Name of Opinion People v.

    Cited 48 timesPublished

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