State v. Nickens

How courts have described this case

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

• holding State failed to 12 establish constructive possession when cocaine and firearm were not in plain view and to establish Nickens’s knowledge the State relied on apartment’s size and presence of drug paraphernalia
• remanding criminal case “for entry of judgment of acquittal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Effler
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-07-17· cited 78×
• State of Iowa v. Robert Dean Ahart
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-02-08
• State Of Iowa Vs. James Carson Effler
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-07-17
• State of Iowa v. John Green
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-09-02
• State of Iowa v. Jeffrey E. Hummell
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-11-30
• State of Iowa v. Michael Raymond Russell
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2025-01-23

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Jacobs
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-03-22· cited 166×
• State v. Maghee
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1997-11-26· cited 131×
• State v. Reeves
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-07-03· cited 103×
• State v. Rohm
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-04-26· cited 55×
• State v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-01-21· cited 48×
• United States v. Anna Marie Ocampo
  First Circuit· 1992-05-15· cited 44×
• Clayton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-06-12· cited 41×
• State v. Speicher
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-04-25· cited 32×
• State v. Atkinson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-11-16· cited 30×
• State v. McDowell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-02-14· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Ocasio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-19· cited 25×
• State v. Boley
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-05-23· cited 18×
• State v. Mapp
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-09-23· cited 17×