Hartwig v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1999
15 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 Iowa Power and Light Co. v. Abild Construction Co. · Shover v. Iowa Lutheran Hospital · Law Ex Rel. Law v. Hemmingsen · Kuehn v. Jenkins · Quam Ex Rel. Quam v. Wengert
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A worker on the highway is required to use ordinary care. A worker on the highway is not charged with the same degree of care as an ordinary pedestrian. Bradley Kuta was required to exercise only such reasonable care and observation for his safety as under the circumstances were called for. The conduct of Bradley Kuta’s employer is not chargeable to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kuta v. Newberg · Adams v. Deur“It is the trial court’s duty to instruct with reasonable fullness on the pleaded issues which have evidentiary support. A mere abstract definition of the law having no application to the facts is insufficient. The giving of instructions which are conflicting and confusing is reversible error.”
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.