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  • People v. Stone

    199 Cal. 610 · California Supreme Court · Nov 9, 1926

    (People v. Tom Woo, 181 Cal. 315 [ 184 Pac. 389 ] ; People v. Willard, 150 Cal. 543 [ 89 Pac. 124 ].) … Code, sec. 1012; People v. Byron, 103 Cal. 675 [ 37 Pac. 754 ] ; People v. Ellenwood, 119 Cal. 166 [ 51 Pac. 553 ] ; People v. Dean, 66 Cal. App. 602 [ 226 Pac. 943 ].)

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Williams v. Mountaineer Gold Mining Co.

    102 Cal. 134 · California Supreme Court · Mar 29, 1894

    It was so held in Cox v. Western Pacific R. R., 44 Cal. 28 . See, also, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. v. … In Silvester v. Coe Min.

    Cited 21 timesPublished
  • Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training v. Superior Court

    64 Cal. Rptr. 3d 661 · California Supreme Court · Aug 27, 2007

    (Kibler v. … (Bonnell v. Medical Board (2003) 31 Cal.4th 1255, 1263 [ 8 Cal.Rptr.3d 532 , 82 P.3d 740 ].)

    Cited 92 timesPublished
  • People v. Victor

    62 Cal. 2d 280 · California Supreme Court · Jan 27, 1965

    (American Civil Liberties Union v. Board of Education (1963) 59 Cal.2d 203, 218 [9] [ 28 Cal.Rptr. 700 , 379 P.2d 4 ].) A primary source of definition is the context of the questioned language (Civ. … (Select Base Materials, Inc. v. Board of Equalization (1959) 51 Cal.2d 640, 645 [2-3] [ 335 P.2d 672 ].)

    Cited 116 timesPublished
  • Dabney v. Philleo

    37 Cal. 2d 672 · California Supreme Court · Aug 22, 1951

    (Guardianship of Vucinich (1935), 3 Cal.2d 235, 243 [ 44 P.2d 567 ]; see also Wilkerson v. Seib (1942), 20 Cal.2d 556, 562 [ 127 P.2d 904 ]; Stratton v. … (Estate of Rolls.(1924), 193 Cal. 594, 599 [ 226 P. 608 ]; see, also, Brown v.

    Cited 56 timesPublished
  • People v. Gonzalez

    43 Cal. 4th 1118 · California Supreme Court · Jun 2, 2008

    For example, in People v. … (See People v. Brown (2003) 31 Cal.4th 518, 534 [ 3 Cal.Rptr.3d 145 , 73 P.3d 1137 ] [court should not entertain constitutional claims unless necessary to resolve a case].) III.

    Cited 345 timesPublished
  • Sun'n Sand, Inc. v. United California Bank

    21 Cal. 3d 671 · California Supreme Court · Jul 20, 1978

    (Pacific Finance Corp. v. Bank of Yolo (1932) 215 Cal. 357 [ 10 P.2d 68 ] and Pacific Indemnity Co. v. Security First Nat. Bank (1967) 248 Cal.App.2d 75 [ 56 Cal.Rptr. 142 ].) … This conclusion relying upon the form of the action seems contrary to Daly v.

    Abrogated by statute, as recognized in Lee Newman, M.D., Inc. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Cited 183 timesPublished
  • Draper v. Aceto

    113 Cal. Rptr. 2d 61 · California Supreme Court · Nov 1, 2001

    In Summers v. … Baxter, J., Chin, J., Brown, J., and Marchiano, J., * concurred. All further undesignated statutory references are to the Labor Code.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Garcia v. Industrial Accident Commission

    41 Cal. 2d 689 · California Supreme Court · Nov 13, 1953

    Brown, Attorney General, Irving H. Perluss, Assistant Attorney General, William L. Shaw and Vincent P. Lafferty, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents. *691 SCHAUER, J. … Co. v. Industrial Acc.

    Cited 29 timesPublished
  • In re Estate of McDevitt

    95 Cal. 17 · California Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1892

    (Waterman v. Whitney, 11 N. Y. 157 ; 62 Am. Dec. 71 .) … For his board at the house of Andrew he never paid or offered to pay one cent. He required more money than he was getting for rents, to improve his property.

    Cited 128 timesPublished
  • Vanderslice v. Hanks

    3 Cal. 27 · California Supreme Court · Oct 15, 1852

    In some of them, also, as in Lebois v. Brommell, 4 How.; Blanc v. Lafayette, 11 How.; Lecompte v. United States, 11 How.; and Menard’s Heirs v. … The same question arose in the case of Taylor & Quarle v. *43 Brown, 5 Graneh.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Parker v. Otis

    130 Cal. 322 · California Supreme Court · Oct 27, 1900

    (Kullman v. Simmens, 104 Cal. 595 ; Sheehy v. Shinn, supra). The court will always see that legitimate business transactions are not brought under the ban. *Page 330 5. … (See Sheehy v. Shinn, supra, and cases there referred to; Kullman v. Simmens, supra.) 6.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • People v. King

    115 Cal. Rptr. 2d 214 · California Supreme Court · Jan 10, 2002

    Both People v. … WE CONCUR: GEORGE, C.J., KENNARD, WERDEGAR, CHIN, BROWN, and MORENO, JJ.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Bibend v. Liverpool & London Fire & Life Insurance

    30 Cal. 78 · California Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1866

    According to Lord Chancellor King, in Lynch v. Dalzell, 4 Brown, 431, and Lord Chancellor Hardwick, in Sadlers’ Co. v. … (Mitchell v. Winslow, 2 Story, 639 ; Wright v. Wright, 1 Ves. 409, 411.)

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Pacific Factor Co. v. Adler

    90 Cal. 110 · California Supreme Court · Jul 1, 1891

    (Craft v. McConoughy, 79 Ill. 346 ; 12 Am. Rep. 171 ; Arnott v. Pittston and Elmira Coal Co., 68 N. Y. 558 ; 23 Am. Rep. 190 .) It is difficult to distinguish upon principle the case of Santa Clara V. M. & L. Co. v. … (Patent Brick Co. v. Moore, 75 Cal. 205 ; Eva v. McMahon, 77. Cal. 472.)

    Cited 36 timesPublished
  • McKee v. Cal. Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

    166 Cal. 409 · California Supreme Court · Nov 26, 1913

    (Kenaday v. Sinnott, 179 U. S. 618 , [ 45 L. Ed. 339 , 21 Sup. Ct. Rep. 233].) In Tifft v. Porter, 8 N. … In Gelbach v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • People v. Box

    99 Cal. Rptr. 2d 69 · California Supreme Court · Aug 17, 2000

    *1171 Opinion BROWN,J. A jury found defendant Christopher Clark Box and Manuel Flores, Jr., guilty of the first degree murders of April Gilhousen, her three-year-old son Bryan, and a houseguest, Kevin Chandler (Pen. … Moreover, Zigelbaum was not board-certified in either psychiatry or forensic psychiatry.

    Disapproved on other grounds by People v. Martinez, 47 Cal. 4th 911 (2010)Cited 235 timesPublished
  • Gutierrez v. Tostado

    California Supreme Court · Jul 31, 2025

    This statute establishes the default rule that each person has a duty ‘to exercise, in his or her activities, reasonable care for the safety of others.’ ” (Brown v. … Brown proclaimed that the “cost of medical malpractice insurance has risen to levels which many physicians find intolerable.” (Governor’s Proclamation to Leg. (May 16, 1975) Stats. 1975, 2d Ex.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Banning Ranch Conservancy v. City of Newport Beach

    216 Cal. Rptr. 3d 306 · California Supreme Court · Mar 30, 2017

    Board of Supervisors (1990) 52 Cal.3d 553, 564), we accord greater deference to the agency‟s substantive factual conclusions. … (Citizens of Goleta Valley v. Board of Supervisors, supra, 52 Cal.3d at p. 564 (Goleta Valley).)

    Cited 49 timesPublished
  • Grunwald v. Freese

    4 Cal. Unrep. 182 · California Supreme Court · Aug 31, 1893

    (free on board), San Francisco, ninety days’ sight draft, etc. … Clemens, 58 Pa. 24 ; Cash v. Kennion, 11 Ves. 315.

    Cited 10 timesPublished

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