Russell v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1975
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Maland v. Tesdall · Vandell v. Roewe · Harvey v. Clark · McDonald v. Dodge · Garrity v. Mangan
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A high rate of speed alone does not make a case for the jury under the guest statute; there must be other material facts and circumstances combined with speed before there is an issue for the jury on the question of recklessness. Mayer v. Sheetz, 1937, 223 Iowa 582 , 273 N.W. 138 . In the cases of McDonald v. Dodge, 1941, 231 Iowa 325 , 1 N.W.2d 280 , and Scott v. Hansen, 1940, 228 Iowa 37 , 289 N.W. 710 , speeds of 80 miles an hour were held insufficient to make a case of recklessness for the jury. While it would seem that there would be some rate of speed which in itself alone would show recklessness, yet if there is, it is some speed beyond 80 miles an hour.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fritz v. Wohler
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.