Pieper Ex Rel. Pieper v. Harmeyer

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that speed alone is not sufficient to establish reckless driving
• finding insufficient evidence of recklessness when a driver collided with vehicles stopped at the bottom of a hill even though the driver could not see what was on the other side of the hill as he sped toward and over it
• finding driver's actions did not rise to level of recklessness
• finding driver’s actions did not rise to level of recklessness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• B & B Asphalt Co. v. T. S. McShane Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-05-19· cited 122×
• Long v. Long
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-06-29· cited 45×
• Rush v. Sioux City
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-03-17· cited 43×
• Schermer v. Muller
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-01-15· cited 21×
• State v. Fish
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-05-17· cited 7×
• Bell v. Community Ambulance Service Agency for Northern Des Moines County
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-05-28· cited 6×
• Rumley v. City of Mason City, Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1982-04-27· cited 4×
• Kooyman Ex Rel. Kooyman v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-06-28· cited 4×
• Bell v. COMMUN. AMBULANCE SERV. AGENCY
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-05-28
• State of Iowa v. Richard Lawson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2025-10-01

Cites

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

• Schmitt v. Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-09-05· cited 172×
• Henneman v. McCalla
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-02-07· cited 55×
• Hardwick Ex Rel. Bartz v. Bublitz
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1963-02-12· cited 41×
• Fagen Elevator v. Pfiester
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1953-01-13· cited 39×
• Goodman v. Gonse
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1956-05-09· cited 34×
• Vipond v. Jergensen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-02-07· cited 31×
• Lewis v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1960-08-02· cited 27×
• Baker v. Wolfe
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-02-11· cited 26×
• Jones v. O'BRYON
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1962-07-24· cited 21×
• Irlbeck v. Pomeroy
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-09-19· cited 21×
• Reed v. Willison
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1954-07-26· cited 20×
• City of Des Moines v. Huff
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1975-09-17· cited 20×
• City of Cedar Rapids v. Moses
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-11-13· cited 19×
• Johnson v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1963-03-12· cited 19×
• Coltman v. City of Beverly Hills
  California Court of Appeal· 1940-08-30· cited 16×
• Cunning v. Knott
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1953-06-12· cited 16×
• Heldenbrand v. Executive Council of Iowa, State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-05-22· cited 15×
• Wolfs v. Challacombe
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-05-22· cited 15×
• Coppola v. Jameson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1972-09-19· cited 15×
• Valencia v. Strayer
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1963-12-09· cited 14×