State v. Elam

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he test of justification is both subjective and objective. The actor must actually believe that he is in danger and that belief must be a reasonable one.”
• \[T]he test of justification is both subjective and objective. The actor must actually believe that he is in danger and that belief must be a reasonable one.\
• justification for the use of deadly force

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Reeves
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-10-08· cited 208×
• State of Iowa v. Denise Leone Frei
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-03-08· cited 49×
• State v. Harrington
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-05-16· cited 41×
• Kane v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1989-02-22· cited 34×
• State v. Harden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2009-07-27· cited 31×
• State v. Luter
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-03-14· cited 26×
• State v. Cook
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-05-26· cited 22×
• State v. Florie
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-08-19· cited 21×
• State v. Stallings
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-12-20· cited 16×
• State v. Nunn
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1984-09-06· cited 15×
• State v. Lawrence
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-02-15· cited 14×
• State v. Winders
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-12-19· cited 9×
• Waterbury v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-05-21· cited 7×
• Daniel Sullivan Elam v. Crispus C. Nix
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-12-11· cited 4×
• State v. Ogle
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1985-02-26· cited 3×
• State of Iowa v. Thomas Lee Hansen Sr.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-04-16
• Kenyatta Swift Harlston, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-12-21
• State of Iowa v. Patrick William Kirwan
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-08-16
• Jerel Lamar Wright, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-09-13
• State v. Allen
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-02-07

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-02-20· cited 183×
• State v. Rinehart
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-09-19· cited 52×
• State v. Bess
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1968-11-25· cited 49×
• State v. Windsor
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-03-17· cited 38×
• State v. Leonard
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-06-30· cited 34×
• Henderson v. Scurr
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-12-23· cited 29×
• State v. Zaehringer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-06-27· cited 28×
• State v. Beyer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-10-19· cited 25×
• State v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-12-23· cited 24×
• State v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1974-09-06· cited 21×
• State v. Brown
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1977-11-08· cited 19×
• State v. Mayes
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-12-19· cited 19×
• State v. Dewey
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-07-31· cited 11×
• State v. Epps
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-07-21· cited 7×