Patten v. Green

How courts have described this case

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

• taking “judicial notice of the record in the divorce action and the opinions issued in related cases that were appealed to this Court”
• “The district court may, on its own initiative, and in the cautious exercise of its discretion, dismiss a complaint for failure to state a valid claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 46×
• Logan v. Bush
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-01-30· cited 38×
• Ennis v. Dasovick
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-09-09· cited 32×
• Old Broadway Corp. v. Backes
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1990-01-18· cited 22×
• Matter of Estate of Ketterling
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-04-20· cited 14×
• State v. Helland
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2025-03-28· cited 3×
• State v. Gehring
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-12-07· cited 1×
• Ketterling v. Gonzales
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-04-20· cited 1×
• Etemad v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2023-06-08· cited 1×
• Mohammed v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2026-02-26

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gajewski v. Bratcher
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1974-06-27· cited 72×
• State v. Patten
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-06-28· cited 28×
• Matter of Estates of Kjorvestad
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1981-04-03· cited 25×
• Johnson & Maxwell, Ltd. v. Lind
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-02-14· cited 19×
• Albrecht v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Grand Forks & Minot
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-08-15· cited 13×
• Cross v. Farmers Elevator Co.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1915-06-07· cited 8×
• Di Terlizzi v. Di Terlizzi
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1983-02-28· cited 6×