54 Ala. App. 714 - Haynes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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35 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"All parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant and every compound, manufactured, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. Such term does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil or cake or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of sterilization."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collier v. State · 414 So. 2d 998 - Dickerson v. State

2. “"In light of fact that indictment charged possession of `marijuana,' which is the older, more general term comprehending chemical characteristics of cannabis plant did not charge `marihuana,' the term which is used in the Uniform Controlled Substances Act and which substitutes taxonomic definitive nomenclature to define prohibited substance as being all parts of the plant Cannabis Sativa L.[ [2] ] defendant was apprised by indictment that he was accused of possessing substances containing incriminating ingredient of tetrahydrocannabinol."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. State · 342 So. 2d 942 - Radney v. State

3. “Cannabis is the genus name; sativa is the species name; and L. stands for Linnaeas who discovered and described marihuana.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campbell v. State