State v. Wells

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining “we are guided by what the district court did or purported to do in ruling on the motion” in determining whether error was preserved and not the motion’s title
• admitting such photos and discussing other cases in which such photos were admitted
• “[T]he district court alleviated any potential prejudice by excluding the photographs that displayed severe decomposition and consumption by scavengers.”
• “[W]e defer to the fact finder’s determinations concerning witness credibility.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Heuser
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-05-07· cited 44×
• Jensen v. Sattler
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2005-04-29· cited 34×
• State of Iowa v. Justin Robert Derby
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2011-06-03· cited 31×
• State v. Hunt
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2011-04-27· cited 28×
• Gary N. Porter and Lori Porter v. Richard L. Harden and Janice Harden
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-03-10· cited 22×
• State v. Petersen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2004-04-07· cited 14×
• State of Iowa v. Justin David Simpson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-08-27
• State of Iowa v. Lisa Marie Vileta
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-08-17
• State of Iowa v. Michael Ryan Derby
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-05-03
• State of Iowa v. Paul Lee Degroot
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-11-08
• Amended May 23, 2017 Gary N. Porter and Lori Porter v. Richard L. Harden and Janice Harden
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-03-10
• State of Iowa v. Jordan Dean Gustafson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2019-10-09
• State of Iowa v. Douglas K. Lindaman
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-02-19
• State of Iowa v. Kole Alexander Higgins
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-04-01
• In the Matter of Property Seized from Dallas Edward Forkner
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-07-22
• State of Iowa v. Latisha Marie Watson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-09-23
• State of Iowa v. Oleaf Teoh
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2021-01-21
• State of Iowa v. Pamela Mildred Middlekauff
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2022-05-27
• State of Iowa v. Mary Jane Jackson Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2022-10-19
• State of Iowa v. Ronald James Brimmer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2022-12-22

Cites

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

• Graber v. City of Ankeny
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-09-07· cited 132×
• United States v. Keith M. Freisinger
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-06-24· cited 123×
• State v. Sailer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-11-25· cited 123×
• State v. O'CONNELL
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-02-21· cited 118×
• State v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-03-25· cited 109×
• State v. Tangie
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-09-07· cited 103×
• Saadiq v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-05-21· cited 94×
• Carolan v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-09-18· cited 91×
• State v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-11-12· cited 87×
• State v. Mark
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-12-19· cited 71×
• State v. Seager
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-11-23· cited 67×
• State v. Sangster
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-12-17· cited 57×
• State v. Kidd
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1997-04-23· cited 55×
• State v. Schultz
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1999-12-22· cited 48×
• State v. Godbersen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1992-12-23· cited 41×
• State v. King
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-06-29· cited 40×
• State v. Delay
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-06-16· cited 40×
• State v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-06-23· cited 40×
• State v. Chadwick
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-01-19· cited 40×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-03-29· cited 39×