Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that litigants may “expand or refine details of an argument otherwise preserved” under certain conditions
• stating that summary judgment on breach of contract claim is appropriate where no reasonable person could read purported acceptance as evidencing mutual assent
• noting that court may review an issue if new argument is closely related to trial - court arguments so that they \could have been gleaned\ from the pleadings
• noting general rule that parties may not raise new issues on appeal to obtain reversal
• stating that generally new issues or theories may not first be (continued...
• applying liberal approach to determining whether issue or theory was raised in lower court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cox v. Cox
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1994-09-09· cited 105×
• Wright v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1992-01-24· cited 89×
• Laing v. Laing
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-08-21· cited 77×
• Hayes v. Xerox Corp.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-04-25· cited 76×
• Hartland v. Hartland
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1989-07-07· cited 73×
• Gudenau & Co., Inc. v. Sweeney Ins., Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-05-08· cited 71×
• Broderick v. King's Way Assembly of God Church
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1991-03-29· cited 68×
• Schmitz v. Schmitz
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2004-04-16· cited 68×
• Ellingstad v. State, Department of Natural Resources
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-05-21· cited 67×
• In Re the Adoption of F.H.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1993-05-14· cited 63×
• Kollodge v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1988-06-03· cited 63×
• Conam Alaska v. Bell Lavalin, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1992-11-27· cited 60×
• Harrower v. Harrower
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2003-06-13· cited 57×
• Rhinehart v. Nowlin
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-12-18· cited 56×
• Brady v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1998-10-09· cited 54×
• Jones v. Central Peninsula General Hospital
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1989-08-25· cited 54×
• ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. v. Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-03-14· cited 52×
• Valdez Fisheries Development Ass'n v. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-04-19· cited 50×
• State v. Northwestern Construction, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-08-07· cited 46×
• Mine Safety Appliances Co. v. Stiles
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1988-05-20· cited 46×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Walsh v. Walsh
  California Supreme Court· 1941-08-18· cited 184×
• Opdyke Investment v. NORRIS GRAIN COMPANY
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-05-18· cited 104×
• Brand S Corp. v. King
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 77×
• O'Neill Investigations, Inc. v. Illinois Employers Insurance of Wausau
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-11-27· cited 70×
• Howarth v. First National Bank of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-09-24· cited 64×
• Alaska Northern Development, Inc. v. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-06-10· cited 45×
• McKibben v. Mohawk Oil Co., Ltd.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-07-29· cited 38×
• Smalley v. Juneau Clinic Building Corporation
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-02-14· cited 38×
• State v. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-01-09· cited 33×
• Weiner v. Romley
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1963-05-08· cited 29×
• Riley v. NORTHERN COM'L CO., MACHINERY DIV.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1982-07-30· cited 29×
• Howarth v. First National Bank of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-06-30· cited 28×
• Curran v. Hastreiter
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-05-19· cited 27×
• Thrift Shop, Inc. v. Alaska Mutual Savings Bank
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1965-01-29· cited 26×
• Malone Construction Co. v. Westbrook
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-12-05· cited 24×
• Howarth v. First National Bank of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-06-29· cited 24×
• Markov v. ABC Transfer & Storage Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-07-17· cited 23×
• Deal v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-11-28· cited 23×
• Brock v. Alaska International Industries, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1982-05-21· cited 20×
• Glover v. Sager
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-07-22· cited 16×