Butler v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that State’s decision not to update an installed guardrail was made at the operational, rather than the planning level, and thus did not fall within the discretionary function exception
• design defect in placement of guardrails along interstate highway operational rather than policy decision
• decisions as to when and where to construct a new freeway are immune
• The state discretionary function exception is “identical to the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act, and we are aided by federal interpretations of that provision.” (Citation omitted.)
• The state discretionary function exception is “identical to the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act, and we are aided by federal interpretations of that provision.” (Citation omitted.)
• decisions made concerning the design and placement of guardrail are not discretionary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hall v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-01-23· cited 106×
• Metier v. Cooper Transport Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-12-18· cited 45×
• Fink v. Kitzman
  N.D. Iowa· 1995-03-29· cited 32×
• Goodman v. City of Le Claire
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-12-23· cited 29×
• Adam v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-01-15· cited 28×
• Kevin Walker v. State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2011-08-12· cited 28×
• Messerschmidt v. City of Sioux City
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2002-11-14· cited 24×
• Keystone Electrical Manufacturing, Co. v. City of Des Moines
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-11-25· cited 20×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-09-18· cited 19×
• Johnson v. County of Nicollet
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1986-05-20· cited 17×
• Hansen v. City of Audubon
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-12-18· cited 15×
• Schmitz v. City of Dubuque
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2004-06-16· cited 14×
• Sullivan v. Wickwire
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-10-16· cited 8×
• Nordbrock v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-11-12· cited 7×
• Sheerin v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1989-01-25· cited 4×
• Chabot v. City of Sauk Rapids
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-11-24· cited 2×
• Kachevas, Inc. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1994-09-16· cited 2×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dalehite v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1953-06-08· cited 1,757×
• Blessing v. United States
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1978-04-19· cited 169×
• Baldwin v. State of California
  California Supreme Court· 1972-01-03· cited 133×
• Department of Transp. v. Neilson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-09-14· cited 132×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-06-29· cited 121×
• Lloyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-03-16· cited 74×
• Charles W. Driscoll v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-10-15· cited 61×
• Estate of Alexander C. Callas, Etc. v. United States of America and United States Army Corps of Engineers
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-06-11· cited 47×
• State v. Webster
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1972-12-26· cited 46×
• Stanley Ex Rel. Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1972-05-11· cited 42×
• Stanford v. State Department of Highways & Public Transportation
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-30· cited 39×
• Hall v. Department of State Highways
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1981-09-21· cited 35×
• Foster v. United States
  D. New Mexico· 1959-06-29· cited 19×
• State v. Boelman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-03-16· cited 16×
• Foster v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1960-03-31· cited 2×