Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that courts have uniformly-rejected a cause of action.for negligent criminal investigations by police officers
• holding “law enforcement officers have no liability for mere negligence in the investigation of crime”
• holding “law enforcement officers have no liability'for mere negligence in investigation of crime.”
• declining to recognize “an independent tort for negligent investigation of crime by law enforcement officers.”
• overruling trial court’s denial of motion to dismiss and holding, as a matter of law, that there is no tort of negligent investigation of a crime by law enforcement officers
• declining to recognize a tort for negligent investigation of a crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sankey v. Richenberger
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-05-23· cited 67×
• Dever v. Fowler
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-02-18· cited 50×
• Keates v. City of Vancouver
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-03-08· cited 46×
• Hildenbrand v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-06-19· cited 46×
• MH by and Through Callahan v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-04-16· cited 39×
• Manuela Rodriguez v. United States
  First Circuit· 1995-07-17· cited 31×
• Maxine Gail Veatch v. City of Waverly and Jason Leonard, Individually and in His Official Capacity
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-01-09· cited 31×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-12-06· cited 29×
• Morris v. Leaf
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-07-19· cited 28×
• Waskey v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1996-01-12· cited 25×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1989-04-19· cited 21×
• Weltzin v. COBANK, ACB
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-09-06· cited 20×
• Wimer v. State
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1993-02-18· cited 18×
• Wongittilin v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2001-12-07· cited 18×
• Hutcherson v. City of Phoenix
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1996-10-08· cited 16×
• Kenneth Lahm v. Michael Farrington & a.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-03-14· cited 16×
• Rittscher v. State, Iowa Department of Social Services
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-06-13· cited 15×
• Landeros v. City of Tucson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-02-20· cited 14×
• Hulstedt v. City of Scottsdale
  D. Arizona· 2012-08-06· cited 13×
• Schmidt v. Mahoney
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-04-02· cited 12×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Neustadt
  Supreme Court· 1961-05-29· cited 572×
• Barry J. Quinones v. United States of America, and United States Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and Its Agents and Employees
  Third Circuit· 1974-03-06· cited 106×
• Brody v. Ruby
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-06-28· cited 98×
• Wilson v. Nepstad
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-07-25· cited 94×
• Lyddon v. Shaw
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-01-23· cited 76×
• Hubbard v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-01-14· cited 58×
• Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Pherson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1954-06-14· cited 47×
• Cole v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-02-18· cited 45×
• Weber v. Madison
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-03-16· cited 41×
• Wilson v. O'NEAL
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1960-02-09· cited 38×
• Johnson v. City of Pacifica
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-02-04· cited 28×
• Gerald J. Hoesl v. United States of America, Dr. David Allen Kasuboski
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-10-02· cited 23×
• Hoesl v. United States
  N.D. California· 1978-04-26· cited 19×
• Zerbe v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-05-12· cited 18×
• Nicholas v. Michigan State Employees Retirement Board
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1985-07-01· cited 18×