Davenport Water Co. v. Iowa State Commerce Commission

Decided September 27, 1971. W. Ward Reynoldson wrote the opinion for the court.

190 N.W.2d 583 · Cited 81 times

Official text

Read the full opinion (CourtListener)

We don’t host opinion text or publish a summary of this ruling — read the official public-domain text for the court’s holding and reasoning, and verify against the primary source.

Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Fort Dodge · 85 N.W.2d 28
• Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. State Corp. Commission · 386 P.2d 515
• Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · 401 P.2d 353
• Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Iowa City · 124 N.W.2d 840
• In Re Revision in Rates Filed by Nj Power & Light Co. · 89 A.2d 26
• Utah Power & Light Co. v. Public Service Commission · 152 P.2d 542
• Application of Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. · 98 N.W.2d 170
• San Diego Land & Town Co. v. National City · 174 U.S. 739
• United Gas Corp. v. Mississippi Public Service Commission · 127 So. 2d 404
• Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Mississippi Public Service Commission · 113 So. 2d 622
• Narragansett Electric Company v. Kennelly · 143 A.2d 709
• Smyth v. Ames · 169 U.S. 466
• May's Drug Stores, Inc. v. State Tax Commission · 45 N.W.2d 245
• Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission · 187 A.2d 475
• Britven v. Occidental Insurance · 13 N.W.2d 791
• State Ex Rel. Olsen v. Public Service Commission · 309 P.2d 1035
• Iowa Public Service Co. v. City of Sioux City · 128 N.W.2d 248
• Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · 340 U.S. 474
• Willcox v. Consolidated Gas Co. · 212 U.S. 19
• Market Street Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission of California · 324 U.S. 548
• Elk Run Telephone Co. v. General Telephone Co. of Iowa · 160 N.W.2d 311
• State v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegram Company · 148 So. 2d 229
• Public Service Commission v. City of Indianapolis · 131 N.E.2d 308
• Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Slattery · 25 N.E.2d 482
• Snyder v. Town of Newtown · 147 Conn. 374

Cited by

Later opinions in our collection that cite this decision.

• Office of Consumer Advocate v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 432 N.W.2d 148
• United Telephone Co. of Iowa v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 257 N.W.2d 466
• Iowa Planners Network v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 373 N.W.2d 106
• Office of Consumer Advocate v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 428 N.W.2d 302
• NW Pub. Serv. v. CITIES OF CHAMBERLAIN, ETC. · 265 N.W.2d 867
• Office of Consumer Advocate v. Utilities Board · 452 N.W.2d 588
• Northwestern Public Service Co. v. Cities of Chamberlain, Huron, Mitchell, Redfield, Webster, & Yankton · 265 N.W.2d 867
• Johnson v. Charles City Community Schools Board of Education · 368 N.W.2d 74
• Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 359 N.W.2d 491
• Teleconnect Co. v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 404 N.W.2d 158
• City of Coralville v. Iowa Utilities Board · 750 N.W.2d 523
• Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co. v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 347 N.W.2d 423
• Iowa Malleable Iron Co. v. Iowa Employment Security Commission · 195 N.W.2d 714
• Hanson v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 227 N.W.2d 157
• City of Des Moines v. Iowa State Commerce Commission · 285 N.W.2d 12
• Office of Consumer Advocate v. Iowa Utilities Board · 454 N.W.2d 883
• State v. Opperman · 247 N.W.2d 673
• Racing Ass'n of Central Iowa v. Fitzgerald · 675 N.W.2d 1
• Rozanne E. King Alisha Jane King Dacie S. Houston, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Skylar Dwayne Ostrander, Chay Cortez Ostrander, and Adlia William Cortez Flood III Brandy R. Drake, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Logan Genner Luhmann, Susan Maule, Stephanie Maule, and Jacob Maule Michael Campbell, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of George Campbell and Soph · 818 N.W.2d 1
• City of Davenport v. Public Employment Relations Board · 264 N.W.2d 307
• Bierkamp v. Rogers · 293 N.W.2d 577
• Norland v. Iowa Department of Job Service · 412 N.W.2d 904
• Application of Hawaii Elec. Light Co., Inc. · 594 P.2d 612
• State v. Izzolena · 609 N.W.2d 541
• Northern Natural Gas Company v. Forst · 205 N.W.2d 692

Explore from here

W. Ward Reynoldson’s Judicial Record · Iowa · How we source opinions

Source: opinion metadata, authorship, and citation counts from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data (public domain). Data last verified 2026-07-09. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).