State v. Alexander

How courts have described this case

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

• spurious reference to guilty pleas in rule concerning new trials deemed inconsistent with evident legislative intent to grant relief based on newly discovered evidence
• court must interpret statutes in manner that avoids absurd results

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jacob Lee Schmidt v. State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2018-03-23· cited 226×
• State v. Speed
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-01-21· cited 47×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-05-15· cited 31×
• Embassy Tower Care, Inc. v. Tweedy
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1994-05-25· cited 6×
• Richmond v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-12-19· cited 5×
• State v. Garner
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-05-15· cited 4×
• Charles Nicholes, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-02-22

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Kluge
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 43×
• State v. Bessenecker
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-04-15· cited 34×
• Leanel Williams v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1961-05-19· cited 27×
• State v. Morehouse
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-03-17· cited 25×
• United States v. Herman C. Lambert
  Tenth Circuit· 1979-08-10· cited 19×
• United States v. Charles R. Collins
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-03-07· cited 17×
• State v. Burtlow
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-09-19· cited 15×
• United States v. Forrest
  W.D. Michigan· 1973-03-14· cited 2×