Bruce Ex Rel. Bruce v. Wookey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Each section [of the Iowa Probate Code] must be construed with the act as a whole and all parts of the act considered, compared and construed together.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. Iowa City
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-03-11· cited 59×
• Giltner v. Stark
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-06-26· cited 55×
• Flynn v. Lucas County Memorial Hospital
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-01-17· cited 51×
• Northern Natural Gas Company v. Forst
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-03-28· cited 48×
• Dobrovolny v. Reinhardt
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-01-13· cited 35×
• State Ex Rel. Krupke v. Witkowski
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-07-29· cited 26×
• Wolder v. Rahm
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-01-19· cited 24×
• Ritter v. Dagel
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1968-02-06· cited 19×
• In the Matter of the Estate of Carroll Irving Sampson, Cheryl Ann Murken and Mary Ann Smith, Coexecutors of the Christine Rosilia Sampson Estate
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-10-25· cited 15×
• Mary Wolder v. Clare J. Rahm, as Administrator of the Estate of Herbert C. Merillat
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-02-09· cited 5×
• In the Matter of the Estate of Dorothy L. Bastian
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2026-04-15

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Manilla Community School District v. Halverson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1960-03-08· cited 27×
• Cassone v. Coyne
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1965-12-03· cited 2×
• Parrish v. McKee
  Columbiana County Court of Common Pleas· 1956-04-30· cited 2×