State v. Law

How courts have described this case

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

• “A person who is ‘armed’ under the robbery statute would not necessarily be pointing a firearm or displaying a dangerous weapon in a threatening manner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wales
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-10-27· cited 26×
• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-12-23· cited 12×
• State v. Pettyjohn
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1989-02-10· cited 3×
• State of Iowa v. Travis Lee Downs
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-11-09
• Melissa Runyan v. William Runyan
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-07-05
• Devon Lukinich v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2019-07-24
• United States v. Elijah Wires
  Eighth Circuit· 2025-08-01

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-02-20· cited 183×
• Wind River Indian Education Ass'n v. Ward
  Supreme Court· 1975-10-14· cited 73×
• State v. Sangster
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-12-17· cited 57×
• State v. Rouse
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-04-23· cited 51×
• State v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-11-13· cited 42×
• State v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-03-21· cited 38×
• Wambsgans v. Price
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-01-24· cited 33×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-05-13· cited 33×
• Stewart v. Iowa
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-11· cited 30×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-04-23· cited 27×
• State v. Holderness
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-06-18· cited 27×
• State v. Young
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-06-18· cited 16×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-03-19· cited 12×