128 Ind. App. 654 - Buckner v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The discretion lodged in the Court as a guide to judicial action is a judicial discretion and involves, in a legal sense, the exercise by the court, not arbitrarily, wilfully, or passionately, of an official conscience on all the particular facts and circumstances of the subject litigation in the light of and with regard to what is right and equitable under the law properly applicable thereto and to the end of a just result.” Buckner v. Buckner (1958), 128 Ind. App. 654, 659 , 152 N.E. 2d 97 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 143 Ind. App. 24 - Languell v. Languell · 151 Ind. App. 70 - Mathews v. Mathews

2. ““The fact that circumstances would have justified a different result by another trial court than that reached by the trial court in this case does not warrant this court in substituting its judgment for that of this trial court. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Ind. App. 459 - In Re the Marriage of Patus