Baker v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1991
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mongar Ex Rel. Mongar v. Barnard · Gibbs Ex Rel. Gibbs v. Wilmeth · Oakes v. Peter Pan Bakers, Inc. · Clayton v. McIlrath · Harris v. Clark
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the term ‘legal excuse’ is meant: “1. Anything that would make it impossible to comply with the statute or ordinance. “2. Anything over which the driver has no control which places his car in a position contrary to the provisions of the statute or ordinance. “3. Where the driver of the car is confronted by an emergency not of his own making, and by reason thereof he fails to obey the statute. “4. Where a statute specifically provides an excuse or exception.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An emergency has been variously defined as (1) an unforeseen combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action; (2) a perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; (3) a sudden or unexpected occasion for action; exigency; pressing necessity.” This definition was repeated in Brown v. Guiter, 256 Iowa 671, 678 , 128 N.W.2d 896, 901 ; Baker v. Wolfe, Iowa, 164 N.W.2d 835, 839 , and many other of our decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.