Frances T. Karsten v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining the Court need not discuss all arguments if the first are dispositive
• “from the perspective of judicial economy, alternative holdings are a welcome blessing for courts at all levels.”
• “If the first reason given is independently sufficient, then all those that follow are surplusage; thus, the strength of the first makes all the rest dicta.”
• “If the first reason given is independently sufficient, then all those that follow are surplusage; thus, the strength of the first makes all the rest dicta.”
• “If the first reason given is independently sufficient, then all those that follow are surplusage; thus, the strength of the first makes all the rest dicta.”
• “If the first reason given is independently sufficient, then all those that follow are surplusage; thus, the strength of the first makes all the rest dicta.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).