State v. Martens

How courts have described this case

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

• stating, “vouching for a witness may induce the jury to trust the judgment of the prosecutor rather than their view of the evidence since the prosecutor’s opinion carries the imprimatur of the Government”
• “A prosecutor may not . . . express or imply his or her personal belief in the truth or falsity of the testimony of a witness.”
• “The credibility of witnesses is a proper subject for discussion during closing argument.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Graves
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-09-04· cited 406×
• State v. Lyman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-01-08· cited 112×
• State v. Arculeo
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2001-11-30· cited 19×
• People v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2001-09-21· cited 15×
• State v. Forsyth
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1996-02-28· cited 11×
• Lane v. Coe College
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1998-04-24· cited 4×
• State v. Rieke
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1995-11-27· cited 1×
• Carlos Davis, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-08-13
• State of Iowa v. Steve Thomas Schneider
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-05-20
• State of Iowa v. Alan Lee Lucas
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-07-22
• State of Iowa v. James Cain Harris
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-11-12
• State of Iowa v. Edward Daniel Towney
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-02-10
• Bruce Marcel Braggs, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-03-08
• State of Iowa v. Phillip Leroy Smith
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-07-06
• State of Iowa v. Undray Jermaine Reed
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-08-16
• State Of Iowa Vs. June Betty Lyman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-01-08
• State of Iowa v. Perry Dale VanDekieft
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-06-06
• State of Iowa v. Donald Edward McIntyre
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2019-01-09
• Daniel J. Dawson v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2019-05-01
• Undray Jermaine Reed v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2019-07-03

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Pate v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-21· cited 3,039×
• State v. Brooks
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1986-07-23· cited 260×
• United States v. Millard Bowie
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-01-08· cited 190×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-12-24· cited 121×
• United States v. Villegas
  Second Circuit· 1990-03-27· cited 117×
• Robert Wilson v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-01-18· cited 102×
• State v. Risdal
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-04-15· cited 96×
• United States v. Louis Rinchack
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-07-14· cited 71×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-06-15· cited 45×
• State v. Mulder
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-12-23· cited 44×
• United States v. Vernon Dale Spivey, Danny H. Spivey, and Michael Gorder
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-10-05· cited 43×
• State v. Hildebrant
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-05-13· cited 41×
• State v. Emerson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-10-16· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Marangiello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-06-20· cited 20×
• State v. Lyon
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-06-18· cited 15×
• State v. McIntosh
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1987-02-19· cited 13×
• State v. Deases
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1991-10-29· cited 3×