State v. Tovar

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing theft by deception conviction where State did not 33 prove Tovar obtained customers’ money by creating “false belief” he would apply down payments to buy carpet
• finding insubstantial evidence of a failure of intent to perform contracts for the installation of carpeting where the district court in a bench trial “made no specific findings, except that [the defendant] misstated the purpose of making the checks payable to him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown Ex Rel. Rhiner v. Kerkhoff
  S.D. Iowa· 2007-08-23· cited 27×
• State v. Morse
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2008-07-16· cited 22×
• State v. Rivers
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-12-23· cited 12×
• State of Iowa v. Nadir Topic
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-07-30
• State of Iowa v. Chaka Khan Fielder
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2019-03-20
• State of Iowa v. Michael G. Gerken
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-06-03

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Hogrefe
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-11-20· cited 51×
• State v. Torres
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1993-02-17· cited 48×
• State v. Caslavka
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-04-26· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-03-24· cited 12×
• Swinney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-10-22· cited 5×