Costs shall be recovered by the successful against the losing party.
Iowa Code § 625.1
Recoverable by successful party
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Richards v. Iowa Department of Revenue (1987)
Most recently applied in In the Interest of R.S.N. (December 2005)
[C51, §1811; R60, §3449; C73, §2933; C97, §3853; S13, §3853; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11622; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §625.1]
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.