Freese v. Lemmon

How courts have described this case

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

• burden rests on party claiming legal excuse to show conduct did not contribute to emergency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McCall v. Wilder
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-12-11· cited 633×
• DeBurkarte v. Louvar
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-09-17· cited 121×
• Wharton Transport Corp. v. Bridges
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-07-07· cited 76×
• Jones v. Blair
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-05-21· cited 33×
• Menzel v. Morse
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-02-13· cited 32×
• Johnson v. Junkmann
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-11-12· cited 27×
• Brown Ex Rel. Rhiner v. Kerkhoff
  S.D. Iowa· 2007-08-23· cited 27×
• Storjohn v. Fay
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-07-22· cited 24×
• Weiss v. Bal
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1993-06-16· cited 20×
• Locksley v. Anesthesiologists of Cedar Rapids, P.C.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-04-20· cited 20×
• First Security Bank & Trust Co. v. Christianson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-10-19· cited 16×
• Roman v. Estate of Gobbo
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2003-07-23· cited 15×
• Surgical Consultants, P.C. v. Ball
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1989-08-23· cited 11×
• Rohl v. State
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1979-04-06· cited 10×
• Clites Ex Rel. Clites v. State
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1982-06-29· cited 10×
• Robert L. Smith, D.D.S., Cristy Smith, Trisha Smith and Kyle Smith v. Craig Alan Wright and Angus Industries, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-05-29
• Jill L. Struve and Steven E. Struve v. Mark Isaacson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2026-03-11

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gibbs Ex Rel. Gibbs v. Wilmeth
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1968-03-05· cited 55×
• Freese v. Lemmon
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-09-19· cited 55×
• Wiles v. Myerly
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-09-19· cited 54×
• Fagen Elevator v. Pfiester
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1953-01-13· cited 39×
• McMaster v. Hutchins
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1963-03-12· cited 39×
• McGulpin v. Bessmer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1950-06-13· cited 38×
• Carpenter ex rel. Carpenter v. Campbell Automobile Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1913-03-11· cited 35×
• Speed v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-04-14· cited 30×
• Gaines v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-11-17· cited 28×
• Sinkey Ex Rel. Sinkey v. Surgical Associates
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-05-05· cited 27×
• Schneberger v. Glenn
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-05-05· cited 24×
• Bangs v. Keifer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-02-10· cited 22×
• Chadwick v. Popadick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-04-18· cited 21×
• City of Cedar Rapids v. Moses
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-11-13· cited 19×
• Slate v. Hogback Mountain Ski Lift, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1960-09-06· cited 14×
• Pickett v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-09-02· cited 13×
• Peters v. Rieck
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1964-11-17· cited 8×
• Davis v. Gatewood
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-04-16· cited 5×
• Miller v. Williamson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1924-01-17· cited 4×
• Galliher v. Campbell
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1954-04-15· cited 4×