113 Ind. App. 676 - Lane v. Gugsell’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1999
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Morgan Clark v. Millsap · 90 Ind. App. 227 - Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Rushton · Herrick v. Lynch · Gilchrist v. Hatch · Bellin v. Bloom
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are asked to reverse because of alleged error in overruling the demurrer to the separate paragraphs of the complaint, but we do not find it necessary to decide the correctness of that ruling. We are not required to make our examination of the record in such a case as this so searchingly technical, if fairly sustainable, as to overthrow a just judgment against an officer of the court who has become enmeshed in a net of his own weaving. Clark v. Millsap (1926), 197 Cal. 765 , 242 P. 918 . Our statute (§2-3231, Burns’ 1933) provides that no judgment shall be stayed or reversed, in whole or in part, where it shall appear to the court that the merits of the cause have been fairly tried and determined in the court below. “When, on appeal, it affirmatively appears from the whole record, as it appears here, that a ruling on a demurrer, though erroneous, did not prejudice the adverse party, and that the case was fairly tried and determined on its merits, it is our duty to affirm regardless of such error. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company v. Rushton (1929), 90 Ind. App. 227 , 148 N. E. 337 , 149 N. E. 652 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a relation of trust and confidence exists, and the party in whom trust is reposed has obtained a benefit, the burden will be upon him to show that the transaction was fair and proper, and relief will not be denied the one least at fault if he has been led into the illegal transaction because of ignorance and the reliance upon trust in the other.... Where it appears that the interests will be better promoted by granting relief to the plaintiff than by denying it, courts of equity, acting with proper caution, may intervene even though the parties are equally guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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