State v. Watkins

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the decision to give a supplemental instruction, or to refrain from doing so, rests within the sound discretion of the trial justice” (quoting State v. Pignolet, 465 A.2d 176, 184 (R.I. 10 1983))
• “[A] discretionary ruling is presumptively correct, and on appeal will be overturned only where an abuse of discretion has been demonstrated. An abuse is found only where the discretion is exercised on grounds or for reasons clearly untenable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Query
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1999-02-24· cited 17×
• State v. McCall
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2008-05-29· cited 14×
• Mumm v. Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital d/b/a Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Emergency Physicians of Western Iowa, L.L.C. and Paul C. Mileris, M.D.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2019-03-01· cited 6×
• State of Iowa v. Bryan Keith Bey
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-12-24
• State of Iowa v. Jeremy Michael Newsom
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-03-11
• State of Iowa v. Patrick Neill Moreno Sr.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-06-10
• State of Iowa v. John Matthew Milder
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-06-10
• State of Iowa v. Dreasean Maurice Barber
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2019-02-20

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Pignolet
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-09-01· cited 46×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-02-22· cited 42×
• Sheer Construction, Inc. v. W. Hodgman & Sons, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-11-24· cited 42×
• Rowen v. LeMars Mutual Insurance Co. of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-11-14· cited 40×