State Ex Rel. Fenton v. Downing

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where the purpose of the suit is to require the officers and agents of the State to perform their duties, there is no immunity recognized.”
• “Where the purpose of the suit is to require the officers and agents of the State to perform their duties, there is no immunity recognized.”
• “Where the purpose of the suit is to require the officers and agents of the State to perform their duties, there is no immunity recognized.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mallory v. Paradise
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-12-09· cited 55×
• State v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-03-16· cited 39×
• Iowa Civil Rights Commission v. Massey-Ferguson, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-04-25· cited 25×
• City of Spencer Ex Rel. Spencer Municipal Utilities v. Hawkeye Security Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-03-27· cited 20×
• Caylor v. Employers Mutual Casualty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1983-10-31· cited 7×
• Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc. v. Iowa State Commerce Commission
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-04-13· cited 3×
• Cory Burnett v. Phillip Smith and State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2023-05-05
• Eugene Sikora v. State of Iowa and Dr. Beth Skinner, in her official capacity as Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2025-06-27

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Collins v. State Board of Social Welfare
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1957-02-05· cited 37×
• Crawford v. Iowa State Highway Commission
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1956-04-04· cited 23×
• Holzhauser v. Iowa State Tax Commission
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1953-12-15· cited 14×
• State Ex Rel. Board of Pharmacy Examiners v. McEwen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1959-04-08· cited 12×