Shawhan v. Polk County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that any error in excluding the plaintiffs evidence regarding damages was cured by a verdict of no liability for the defendants
• determining that evidence of past drug use could not be used to determine damages for future pain and suffering because it is too prejudicial
• finding evidentiary error related to the plaintiff’s damages was non-prejudicial where “the jury found by special verdict that defendant county was not negligent”
• noting the potential that evidence of past drug use “has for causing unfair prejudice is high”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2004-04-07· cited 169×
• State v. Plaster
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-05-11· cited 139×
• McClure v. Walgreen Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-07-06· cited 108×
• Grefe & Sidney v. Watters
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1994-12-21· cited 40×
• Bingham v. Marshall & Huschart MacHinery Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1992-05-13· cited 27×
• Knudsen v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-12-19· cited 20×
• East Broadway Corp. v. Taco Bell Corp.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-01-17· cited 15×
• Duncan v. City of Cedar Rapids
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1997-03-26· cited 12×
• Stumpf v. Reiss
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1993-05-04· cited 6×
• Ward v. Loomis Bros., Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1995-03-30· cited 6×
• Kalell v. Petersen
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1993-02-02· cited 1×
• Robert Reed and Patricia Reed v. Michelle Lynn Schaeffer and Richard Schaeffer
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-04-22
• Gilberto Mendez Marquez v. Donald P. Lacina and Westwinds Real Estate Services, Inc., Defendants-Third Party v. Rodolfo Gonzalez and Rosario Gonzalez, Third Party
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-11-09
• Britney Tibodeau v. Cdi, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-06-21
• State of Iowa v. Timothy Dale Brownlee
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-02-21
• State of Iowa v. Steven W. Chaney
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-03-21
• Walter Reed v. State of Iowa and State of Iowa Department of Transportation
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2018-07-18
• State of Iowa v. Tristin Alderman
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-06-03
• Jesse Vroegh v. Iowa Department of Corrections, and Wellmark, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2022-04-01
• Hill v. Glenwood Resource Center
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2023-03-08

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Albert v. First National Bank & Trust Co.
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-25· cited 164×
• Beeck v. Aquaslide 'N' Dive Corp.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-05-16· cited 86×
• United States v. Benny Ong
  Second Circuit· 1976-09-14· cited 56×
• Gail v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-07-22· cited 50×
• Century '21' Shows and Kenneth Wayne O'Guin v. Charles W. Owens
  Eighth Circuit· 1968-09-09· cited 44×
• Oakes v. Peter Pan Bakers, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1965-11-16· cited 43×
• Vine Street Corporation v. City of Council Bluffs
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-07-31· cited 38×
• State v. Roth
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-04-15· cited 37×
• Ehlinger v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-01-21· cited 34×
• Iowa-Des Moines National Bank v. Schwerman Trucking Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-01-23· cited 32×
• Frank v. Iowa Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-04-16· cited 24×
• Christianson v. Kramer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1965-06-08· cited 23×
• Unnamed case
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-06-13· cited 17×
• GALABRAITH v. George
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-04-24· cited 12×