State v. Bartusek’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2010
9 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 Danner v. Hass · Welp v. Iowa Department of Revenue · Motor Vehicle Casualty Co. v. LeMars Mutual Insurance · Hansen v. State · State v. Sonderleiter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Iowa Code chapter 321A [Iowa’s motor vehicle financial responsibility act] requires certain persons to post a bond with the [DOT] as a means of demonstrating financial responsibility for potential claims that may arise from previous accidents, or as security for future encounters on the state’s highways. [/See Iowa Code §§ 321A.5, .13, .17.] We have found the overall purpose of chapter 321A is “to protect the public from financial irresponsibility of motorists upon streets and highways.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Koplin“Generally, the word `shall,' when used in a statute, is construed to mean something that is mandatory.”
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.