State v. Romero’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Chavez (1966), United States v. King (1973)
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 12 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Economy · Harris v. State · 64 Cal. App. 2d 314 - People v. Savage · State v. Navaro · 3 Ill. 2d 25 - People v. Yeargain
Most-quoted passages
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(10) 'Narcotic drug' means any of the following except decocainized coca leaves or extracts of coca leaves, which extracts do not contain cocaine or ecgonine, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: (c) 'Marihuana' which includes all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin; but shall not include the mature stalks oí such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil, or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such mature stalks, except the resin extracted therefrom, fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination; * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arias · State v. Everidge“"`"Mariguana" is an annual herb, cannabis sativa, having angular rough stem and deeply lobed leaves. The bast fibres of cannabis are the hemp of commerce. A drug prepared from "cannabis sativa," designated in technical dictionaries as "cannabis" and commonly known as marijuana, mariahuana, marajuana, maraguana, or marihuana, in Southern and Western states. * * *' "See also Gould's Medical Dictionary, 2d ed., and Stedman's Medical Dictionary, unabridged lawyers' ed.; see also State v. Navaro, 1933, 83 Utah 6 , 26 P.2d 955 , for a discussion of all of the various terms and the differences in spelling of `marijuana.' "We conclude as a matter of law that marijuana is identical with cannabis, cannabis sativa L., and cannabis indica. Marijuana and cannabis indica are merely geographical oriented names of cannabis, whereas cannabis sativa L. is the botanical name of cannabis."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[m]arijuana' is the name by which cannabis is popularly known, and is neither chemically nor physically distinguishable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arias
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.