Miller v. Component Homes, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a person is entitled to “buy his peace” during settlement negotiations “without danger of being prejudiced in case his effort should fail”
• noting, as reasons for excluding evidence of compromise, that offer of compromise implies merely a desire for peace, not a concession of wrong doing, and public policy favoring settlement of disputes
• evidence admissible to show employer’s intentional rather than inadvertent failure to pay
• “The act by its terms protects only ‘employees’—not independent contractors.” (discussing chapter 91A)
• designation of worker as independent contractor not conclusive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hyler v. Garner
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-05-22· cited 320×
• Graber v. City of Ankeny
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-09-07· cited 132×
• McClure v. Walgreen Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-07-06· cited 108×
• Gail v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-07-22· cited 50×
• Bulaich v. AT&T INFORMATION SYSTEMS
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-09-14· cited 46×
• Shawn C. Jeanes Wayne Mains v. Allied Life Insurance Company
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-08-23· cited 21×
• Peterson v. Pittman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-07-23· cited 21×
• Estate of Michael G. Cox II by Executors, Joleen Cox and Michael G. Cox Sr., and Joleen Cox, Individually and Michael G. Cox Sr., Individually. v. Dunakey & Klatt, P.C. N/K/A Klatt, Odekirk, Augustine, Sayer, Treinen & Rastede, P.C.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-04-07· cited 16×
• Bremicker v. MCI Telecommunications Corp.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-03-16· cited 12×
• McClure v. International Livestock Improvement Services Corp.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-06-19· cited 10×
• Jeanes v. Allied Life Insurance
  S.D. Iowa· 2001-09-21· cited 7×
• Watts v. Montana Rail Link, Inc.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1999-02-08· cited 6×
• Fesler v. WHELEN ENGINEERING CO., INC.
  S.D. Iowa· 2011-07-05· cited 4×
• Wolf v. DaCom, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1993-02-23· cited 3×
• Production Credit Ass'n of the Midlands v. Ryan
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1989-03-16· cited 2×
• Rifet Mujkic v. Lynx, Inc. D/B/A Lynx Transportation, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-03-11
• Shawn C. Jeanes v. Allied Life Ins. Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-08-23
• Davina Valdez v. West Des Moines Community Schools and Desira Johnson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2023-06-30

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pogge v. Fullerton Lumber Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-04-25· cited 46×
• Hassebroch v. Weaver Construction Company
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1954-12-14· cited 45×
• Sandman v. Hagan
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-11-14· cited 42×
• Greenwell v. Meredith Corporation
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-09-09· cited 30×
• Carmichael v. Iowa State Highway Commission
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-06-26· cited 24×
• Stanley v. City of Indianola
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-10-17· cited 20×
• Yeager v. Durflinger
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-05-30· cited 20×
• Lewis v. Kennison
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-04-25· cited 10×
• Lynch v. Egypt Coal Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1921-02-17· cited 10×