Leonard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the disservice to the public caused by holding psychiatrists liable would far outweigh the risks posed by negligent release
• citing, in part, Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-28.4(6) (“The patient shall have the right to the least restrictive conditions necessary to achieve the purposes of treatment.”)
• in a case involving the duty of a mental hospital to a person subsequently injured by a patient released from the hospital, the court wrote, “Whether, under a given set of facts, such a duty exists is a question of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

39 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Thompson v. Kaczinski
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-11-13· cited 198×
• Hartford Insurance v. Manor Inn of Bethesda, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-09· cited 148×
• Kolbe v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-04-25· cited 56×
• J.A.H. ex rel. R.M.H. v. Wadle & Associates, P.C.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1999-02-17· cited 51×
• Pamela Plowman and Jeremy Plowman v. Fort Madison Community Hospital, Pil Kang, John Paiva, Davis Radiology, P.C., Leah Steffensmeier, the Women's Center, and Fort Madison Physicians and Surgeons
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-06-02· cited 46×
• Wright v. Brooke Group Ltd.
  N.D. Iowa· 2000-09-29· cited 42×
• Raas v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2007-03-30· cited 29×
• Sweeney v. City of Bettendorf
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-03-13· cited 29×
• In Re the Detention of Calvin Matlock, Calvin Matlock
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-03-13· cited 27×
• Morgan v. Perlowski
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1993-11-24· cited 26×
• Jain v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-09-07· cited 25×
• Burton v. Des Moines Metropolitan Transit Authority
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-04-26· cited 23×
• Brown v. North Central F.S., Inc.
  N.D. Iowa· 1997-07-09· cited 22×
• Estate of Mercedes Gottschalk by Coexecutors Richard Gottschalk and Rebecca Rassler v. Pomeroy Development, Inc. D/B/A Pomeroy Care Center v. State of Iowa, Third-Party on Review From the Iowa Court of Appeal
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-04-14· cited 20×
• Pierce v. Staley
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-12-23· cited 13×
• Schmidt v. Mahoney
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-04-02· cited 12×
• Carole Kuligoski, Individually and On Behalf of Michael J. Kuligoski, and Mark Kuligoski and James Kuligoski v. Brattleboro Retreat and Northeast Kingdom Human Services
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-09-16· cited 12×
• Kolbe v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-05-07· cited 10×
• Regan v. Denbar, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1994-01-25· cited 10×
• Barz v. Geneva Elevator Co.
  N.D. Iowa· 1998-07-01· cited 9×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Durflinger v. Artiles
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-12-02· cited 161×
• McIntosh v. Milano
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1979-06-12· cited 115×
• Lipari v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  D. Nebraska· 1980-07-17· cited 109×
• Larsen v. United Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Des Moines
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-01-14· cited 101×
• Perreira v. State
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-02-06· cited 99×
• Daboll v. Hoden
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-10-16· cited 89×
• Sherrill v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-06-30· cited 79×
• Meghan Corinne Jablonski, a Minor, by Her Guardian Ad Litem, Isobel C. Pahls v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-08-08· cited 68×
• Engstrom v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-09-19· cited 68×
• Sankey v. Richenberger
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-05-23· cited 67×
• Hoefer v. Wisconsin Education Ass'n Insurance Trust
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-05-15· cited 60×
• Naidu v. Laird
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-04-11· cited 58×
• Hamman v. County of Maricopa
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-01-19· cited 45×
• MH by and Through Callahan v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-04-16· cited 39×
• Furr v. Spring Grove State Hospital
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-01-07· cited 35×
• B.A.A. v. Chief Medical Officer, University of Iowa Hospitals
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-03-16· cited 28×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-09-18· cited 19×
• Johnson v. Village of Libertyville
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-08-13· cited 15×
• Rittscher v. State, Iowa Department of Social Services
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-06-13· cited 15×