126 Ind. App. 377 - Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1987
14 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 108 Ind. App. 350 - Cornwell v. Cornwell · 116 Ind. App. 322 - McDaniels v. McDaniels · 117 Ind. App. 661 - Stinson v. Stinson · 125 Ind. App. 65 - Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp · 123 Ind. App. 618 - Graves v. Graves
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court cannot weigh conflicting evidence, and if there is any substantial evidence in the record to sustain the findings and the decisions of the trial court, the judgment must be affirmed. The trial judge, it must be borne in mind, as the trier of the facts, was not bound by the testimony of any single witness or any particular item of evidence. As has been so often and correctly stated, it was the exclusive province of the trial court to determine the credibility of the witnesses, whom he had an opportunity to observe, weigh the evidence....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.