Miller v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that superior court did not abuse its broad discretion in allowing the State to call additional witnesses
• noting that false imprisonment or false arrest claims are available for unlawful peaceful arrests effectuated in good faith
• rejecting majority rule permitting use of force to repeal peaceful but illegal arrest
• rejecting majority rule permitting use of force to repeal peaceful but illegal arrest
• no right to resist unlawful arrest by a known police officer in the absence of excessive force

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

65 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Whitton v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-12-23· cited 222×
• Gray v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-01-16· cited 134×
• William C. Wardlaw v. William R. Pickett, Deputy United States Marshal
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-12-06· cited 133×
• City of Columbus v. Fraley
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1975-03-12· cited 108×
• McCoy v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-11-30· cited 98×
• Elson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-02-18· cited 75×
• State v. Wiegmann
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-08-04· cited 73×
• State v. Valentine
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-05-01· cited 72×
• State v. Richardson
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1973-06-08· cited 68×
• Daygee v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-10-12· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Moreira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-29· cited 60×
• State v. Kraul
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1977-03-22· cited 58×
• Casselman v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1985-01-17· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Maguire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-12· cited 57×
• Klockenbrink v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-07-31· cited 50×
• Kristich v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-05-17· cited 45×
• State v. Gardiner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-06-18· cited 45×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-02-22· cited 42×
• State v. Gallagher
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-09-13· cited 42×
• Rodgers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-06-06· cited 41×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Di Re
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 1,525×
• Love v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-08-08· cited 340×
• Coverstone v. Davies
  California Supreme Court· 1952-01-25· cited 162×
• Bad Elk v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1900-04-30· cited 154×
• United States v. Piero Heliczer, Jack William Martin, Iii, and Jack v. Smith
  Second Circuit· 1967-02-23· cited 130×
• The United States of America v. Louis C. Viale, Marino J. Faliero, Sr., Joseph S. Pinnavia, Louis a.abbonando, Anthony F. Fino and Nicholas S. Longo
  Second Circuit· 1963-01-31· cited 121×
• State v. Koonce
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1965-10-26· cited 77×
• Russell Lee Massey v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1966-05-09· cited 45×
• Rubey v. City of Fairbanks
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 41×
• Mahle v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1962-05-02· cited 32×
• Drahosh v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 31×
• Crawford v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1965-12-20· cited 15×
• Herrin v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-01-20· cited 7×
• People v. Whalen
  New York County Courts· 1960-11-15· cited 7×