The requirement of California Penal Code ยง 647(e) to provide "credible and reliable identification" derived not from the statutory language but from a construction of the statute given by a California appellate case, People v. Solomon (1973), 33 Cal.App.3d 429.
In Wainwright v. Stone, 414U.S.21 (1973), the U.S. Supreme Court had held, "For the purpose of determining whether a state statute is too vague and indefinite to constitute valid legislation 'we must take the statute as though it read precisely as the highest court of the State has interpreted it.'"
