State v. Sullivan

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that “[ijmpossible uncertainty over the so-called general mores” renders a moral “right and wrong” test “an unfit tool for determining the mental competency of a person to consent to a sex act”
• reasoning that \[i]mpossible uncertainty over the so-called general mores\ renders a moral \right and wrong\ test \an unfit tool for determining the mental competency of a person to consent to a sex act\
• rejecting, on vagueness grounds, precisely this interpretation of the Iowa statute
• rejecting, on vagueness grounds, precisely this interpretation of the Iowa statute
• “The person mounting the constitutional challenge on a legislative enactment carries the heavy burden to rebut a strong presumption of constitutionality.”
• looking to similar statutes to give definiteness to a statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State of Iowa v. Randy Scott Meyers
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2011-06-24· cited 113×
• State v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-11-24· cited 78×
• Reavis v. Solminski
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1996-08-09· cited 72×
• State v. Collins
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1998-06-16· cited 61×
• State v. Munz
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-09-19· cited 51×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-01-20· cited 50×
• State v. Johnson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1987-09-15· cited 48×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-07-15· cited 44×
• State v. Godbersen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1992-12-23· cited 41×
• State v. Tague
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-09-23· cited 36×
• Amana Society v. Colony Inn, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-01-20· cited 33×
• State v. Schuster
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-06-23· cited 33×
• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-04-15· cited 32×
• State v. Whetstine
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-02-17· cited 28×
• State v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-10-21· cited 28×
• American Dog Owners Ass'n v. City of Des Moines
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-05-15· cited 27×
• State v. Osmundson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-04-17· cited 27×
• State v. Fratzke
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1989-10-19· cited 27×
• State v. Bauer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-08-17· cited 23×
• State v. Willet
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-05-13· cited 23×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• United States v. Harriss
  Supreme Court· 1954-06-07· cited 1,827×
• State v. Monroe
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-11-24· cited 110×
• State v. Kueny
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-02-20· cited 62×
• State v. Willis
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-05-22· cited 45×
• State v. Hamann
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-11-14· cited 42×
• State v. Aldrich
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-07-31· cited 40×
• State v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-01-19· cited 31×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-01-21· cited 30×
• Williams v. Osmundson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-07-25· cited 25×
• Guinyard v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1973-03-14· cited 18×
• State Ex Rel. Fulton v. Scheetz
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-04-08· cited 18×
• Miller v. Iowa Real Estate Commission
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-01-24· cited 18×
• People v. O'NEAL
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-07-25· cited 15×
• Stephenson v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1950-05-30· cited 14×
• State v. Haner
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1919-07-10· cited 9×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-11-12· cited 6×
• Stephenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1950-10-19· cited 1×