Johnson County v. Gilkeson

How courts have described this case

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

• construing a wrongful death statute that expressly referenced parents, spouses, children, or “‘any relative dependent’” on the deceased as only requiring a showing of dependency by such unenumerated relatives
• stating rule of statutory construction that “all of the words of a statute must be given effect and that the legislature is presumed not to have used superfluous or redundant words”
• stating rule of statutory construction that “all of the words of a statute must be given effect and that the legislature is presumed not to have used superfluous or redundant words”
• all words of statute must be given effect; legislature not presumed to use superfluous words
• statutory construction must consider entire statute, since all words must be given effect
• \It is an elementary principle of statutory construction that all of the words of a statute must be given effect and that the legislature is presumed not to have used superfluous or redundant words.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).