State v. Freeman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding courts have a duty to specifically instruct on a mistake of fact even where requisite criminal intent is part of the general instruction
• stating there is no error in denying an instruction where the substance of the instruction is included in another instruction
• stating there is no error in denying an instruction where the substance of the instruction is included in another instruction
• trial court erred in inadequately instructing jury on mistake of fact as defense to crime of intent
• ignorance or mistake of fact, if reasonable and not due to carelessness or negligence, is a defense to a crime of intent
• “[F]or a mistake of fact to form a defense, the mistake must be reasonable and the act to be justified must be taken under a bona fide mistaken belief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Musser
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2006-08-04· cited 104×
• State v. Locquiao
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2002-12-09· cited 60×
• State v. Tague
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-09-23· cited 36×
• General v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-01-14· cited 36×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1995-05-30· cited 30×
• Wilcox v. Hy-Vee Food Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1990-05-24· cited 21×
• State v. Monk
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1994-03-23· cited 15×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-02-19· cited 14×
• State v. Bennett
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1993-05-04· cited 14×
• Cheser v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1994-12-23· cited 11×
• State v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-04-11· cited 11×
• State v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-01-24· cited 9×
• Meck v. Iowa Power & Light Co.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1991-02-26· cited 7×
• State v. Cunningham
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1990-09-26· cited 7×
• AMCO Mutual Insurance Co. v. Lamphere
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1995-10-31· cited 6×
• State v. James
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-09-23· cited 5×
• United States Borax & Chemical Corp. v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1993-06-29· cited 5×
• Mosell v. Estate of Marks
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1994-10-25· cited 4×
• Manno v. McIntosh
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1994-04-26· cited 4×
• State v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-03-29· cited 3×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Ritchison
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-11-13· cited 61×
• State v. Templeton
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-10-19· cited 46×
• State v. Tensley
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-01-19· cited 27×
• State v. Seehan
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-10-19· cited 24×
• State v. Robinette
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-03-27· cited 20×