Hayes v. Kerns’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2000
6 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 Tigges v. City of Amess · Whittier v. Whittier · Flynn v. Lucas County Memorial Hospital · Moody v. Muscogee Manufacturing Co. · Rowen v. LeMars Mutual Insurance Co. of Iowa
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that as long as the case is before us we may reexamine our jurisdiction in light of further study and oral submission of the case. This holding is consistent with the rule in the trial court that provides, “[u]n-til...a final order or a decree [is] rendered, the trial court will have the power to correct any of the rulings, orders, or partial summary judgments it has already entered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Iowa, a final judgment is a judgment that conclusively determines the rights of the parties and is finally decisive of the controversy. If a judgment is final, not only is a right of appeal created, but, absent timely postjudgment motions, district court has no power or authority to return the parties to their original positions. [citations omitted].”
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.