18 Cited authorities

  1. Marks v. United States

    430 U.S. 188 (1977)   Cited 2,097 times   31 Legal Analyses
    Holding that due process is violated if the trial court instructs the jury based on the current interpretation of a statute, rather than the interpretation that controlled at the time of the allegedly criminal acts
  2. Miller v. California

    413 U.S. 15 (1973)   Cited 2,125 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a statute regulating obscene speech must be limited to works that depict or describe sexual conduct "which, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest in sex, which portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and which, taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value"
  3. Bouie v. City of Columbia

    378 U.S. 347 (1964)   Cited 1,495 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding that extending South Carolina's trespassing statute to remaining on another's property after being asked to leave was inconsistent with the law's text barring only "entry" upon another's property
  4. Memoirs v. Massachusetts

    383 U.S. 413 (1966)   Cited 618 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Finding that a work's artistic merit does not depend on the presence of a single explicit scene.
  5. Gregory v. Helvering

    293 U.S. 465 (1935)   Cited 1,443 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that when the form of a transaction does not comport with its substance, the substance of the transaction controls for tax liability purposes
  6. Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr. v. Sup. Ct., Los Angeles Cty

    18 Cal.4th 1 (Cal. 1998)   Cited 317 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "there is no tort remedy for the intentional spoliation of evidence by a party to the cause of action to which the spoliated evidence is relevant, in cases in which, as here, the spoliation victim knows or should have known of the alleged spoliation before the trial or other decision on the merits of the underlying action."
  7. Fisher v. City of Berkeley

    37 Cal.3d 644 (Cal. 1984)   Cited 224 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Upholding rent withholding procedures
  8. Hotel Employees Restaurant Emps. Int. Un. v. Davis

    21 Cal.4th 585 (Cal. 1999)   Cited 86 times
    Holding that the invalid portions of a law were not volitionally separable despite the presence of a severability clause
  9. Trinkle v. California State Lottery

    105 Cal.App.4th 1401 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003)   Cited 45 times
    Treating §§ 330b & 330.1 as identical
  10. Cole v. Rush

    45 Cal.2d 345 (Cal. 1955)   Cited 150 times
    Noting the Legislature's failure to change the law despite making numerous other statutory changes "is indicative of an intent to leave the law as it stands in the aspects not amended"
  11. Section 19

    Cal. Const. art. IV § 19   Cited 68 times
    Notwithstanding subdivision (e), "slot machines, lottery games, and banking and percentage card games are hereby permitted to be conducted and operated on tribal lands. . . ."