State v. Smothers

How courts have described this case

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

• holding counsel has no duty to advance a meritless objection
• defendant committed two burglaries by entering two different businesses housed within same facility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wills
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2005-05-06· cited 76×
• State v. DeCamp
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-02-14· cited 38×
• Gully v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2002-12-11· cited 4×
• CORDLE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-04-30· cited 3×
• State of Iowa v. Joseph Keith Pittman
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-02-11
• State of Iowa v. David Winslow Dunham
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-06-10
• State of Iowa v. Jerme David Hopwood
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-10-28
• State of Iowa v. William Edward Hunt
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-02-08
• State of Iowa v. Gatluak Bol
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-03-08
• Aaron Lee Stinde v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2025-07-23
• Nicholas Michael Haner v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2025-08-06

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Hildebrant
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-05-13· cited 41×
• State v. Schlemme
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-02-18· cited 38×
• State v. Yaw
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-01-14· cited 28×
• State v. Hochmuth
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-10-21· cited 22×
• State Ex Rel. Lankford v. Allbee
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-02-14· cited 19×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1997-02-19· cited 15×
• State v. Terry
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-02-14· cited 13×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1994-11-23· cited 7×