Cuevas v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[M]ost experienced appellate lawyers or judges will attest it is a tactical blunder, often devastating to an appellant, to assign every conceivable complaint. Highly competent lawyers generally assign only the strongest points and rely on them for reversal”
• counsel not required to predict change in law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Osborn v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-02-18· cited 88×
• Jasper v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-11-20· cited 50×
• Amin v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1989-05-19· cited 35×
• Kane v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1989-02-22· cited 34×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-04-17· cited 18×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1996-08-30· cited 14×
• State v. Mount
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-04-13· cited 14×
• Luke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1990-11-29· cited 13×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1990-12-27· cited 4×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1991-10-29· cited 1×
• State v. Mickens
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1990-08-30· cited 1×
• Jerry Tolbert, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-04-27
• Ruthers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-02-07
• Derrick Steven Pena v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-05-02
• Troy Daniel Dowell v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-07-05
• Brian Heath Davis v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2021-01-21
• Jeremy Michael Cory v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2021-08-18
• David Jay Nuno v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2025-09-04
• Ryan Christopher Barnhardt v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2026-02-25

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• State v. Conner
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-04-14· cited 123×
• Hinkle v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-03-19· cited 120×
• Snethen v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-07-15· cited 96×
• Rinehart v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-10-15· cited 71×
• State v. Halstead
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-02-13· cited 59×
• Lamphere v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-04-11· cited 47×
• Schertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-12-18· cited 40×
• State v. Reese
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-11-23· cited 37×
• State v. Millspaugh
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-09-21· cited 35×
• State v. Cuevas
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-07-25· cited 32×
• Cuevas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1985-05-28· cited 3×