State v. Watts

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling “[o]nly the legislature has the power to create and define crime” and this “exclusive legislative function may not be delegated to any other body or agency without adequate guidelines”
• stating only the legislature has the power to create and define a crime
• not required to advise defendant that charge could be used as basis for parole revocation
• “Only the legislature has the power to create and define crime . . . .”
• “Only the legislature has the power to create and define crime . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Saadiq v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-05-21· cited 94×
• Iron Workers Local No. 67 v. Hart
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-11-11· cited 77×
• State v. Reaves
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-05-25· cited 57×
• State Ex Rel. Turner v. Koscot Interplanetary, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-11-11· cited 48×
• State v. Warner
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-05-21· cited 34×
• John R. Grubb, Inc. v. Iowa Housing Finance Authority
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-05-25· cited 33×
• State v. Christensen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1972-10-18· cited 24×
• State v. Kramer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-11-12· cited 18×
• State v. Olesen
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-03-09· cited 15×
• Gardels v. Brewer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-10-13· cited 14×
• State v. Moe
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-12-18· cited 10×
• In Re the Revocation of the Driver License of Fischer
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-11-05· cited 8×
• State Ex Rel. Iowa Air Pollution Control Commission v. City of Winterset
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-06-26· cited 6×
• Watts v. Brewer
  S.D. Iowa· 1972-04-03· cited 3×
• State of Iowa v. Dominick Ronald Marcott
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-06-25
• Ron Myers v. City of Cedar Falls
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2024-06-14

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Yakus v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1944-03-27· cited 1,935×
• United States v. Grimaud
  Supreme Court· 1911-05-03· cited 668×
• Graham v. West Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1912-05-13· cited 498×
• State v. Sisco
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-07-24· cited 193×
• Lane v. Holderman
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1957-02-04· cited 110×
• Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Johanneson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1967-08-23· cited 61×
• Danner v. Hass
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1965-04-06· cited 52×
• Elk Run Telephone Co. v. General Telephone Co. of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1968-07-18· cited 48×
• Gojack v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-10· cited 45×
• State v. Kulish
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-02-07· cited 44×
• State v. Allen
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1967-02-13· cited 36×
• Albert Charles Wessling v. John E. Bennett, Warden
  Eighth Circuit· 1969-05-15· cited 32×
• Wright v. Denato
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-06-23· cited 30×
• Gilman v. Newark
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1962-04-06· cited 30×
• Alton Z. Howard v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-01-05· cited 27×
• Casey v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1959-03-09· cited 25×
• Zilm v. Zoning Board of Adjustment, Polk County
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-05-02· cited 21×
• State v. Steenhoek
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-12-15· cited 18×
• Ware v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1910-02-19· cited 15×
• Lapinski v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1968-11-07· cited 14×