Miller v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim for relief should be denied if a complaint states a claim for some relief, even though the relief may not be the kind to which the party is in fact entitled
• “That such relief [demanded by claimants] may not be the kind to which they are in fact entitled to obtain is of no significance in determining whether there has been sufficiently stated a claim upon which some relief may be granted.” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shooshanian v. Wagner
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-10-28· cited 58×
• Linck v. Barokas & Martin, R.R.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-07-15· cited 58×
• Martin v. Mears
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-11-02· cited 45×
• Larson v. State, Department of Corrections
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2012-08-31· cited 39×
• Adkins v. Stansel
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2009-04-10· cited 33×
• Gregoire v. National Bank of Alaska
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1966-04-07· cited 31×
• Schaible v. Fairbanks Medical & Surgical Clinic, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-02-18· cited 19×
• Douglas v. Glacier State Telephone Co.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-08-01· cited 17×
• Kanuk Ex Rel. Kanuk v. State, Department of Natural Resources
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-09-12· cited 17×
• Wooten v. Hinton
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2009-03-06· cited 15×
• Moran v. Kenai Towing and Salvage, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12×
• Scott v. Agricultural Products Corp., Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1981-04-17· cited 11×
• Wells v. Noey
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1965-02-19· cited 8×
• Bovee v. LaSage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-05-13· cited 6×
• Hubbard v. Mercantile Bank of Kansas City
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-08-01· cited 5×
• Patrick H. Torrence v. Tyler Blue
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2024-07-19· cited 5×
• State v. McCracken
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-12-21· cited 2×
• Litton v. Hiltz
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1964-02-24

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ring v. Spina
  Second Circuit· 1945-03-19· cited 100×
• Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Nester
  Supreme Court· 1940-04-22· cited 27×
• Esquire, Inc. v. Varga Enterprises, Inc. (Two Cases)
  Seventh Circuit· 1950-12-12· cited 25×
• Cooper & Evans Co. v. Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1914-10-16· cited 2×
• United States v. St. Regis Paper Co.
  S.D. New York· 1952-07-24· cited 2×