156 Ind. App. 27 - Jackman v. Jackman’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Fox v. Contract Beverage Packers, Inc. (1980), 159 Ind. App. 290 - Davis v. Davis (1974)
27 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 Pokraka v. Lummus Co. · McDaniel v. McDaniel · 133 Ind. App. 567 - Bahre v. Bahre · O'Connor v. O'Connor · 148 Ind. App. 496 - Boshonig v. Boshonig
Most-quoted passages
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““. . . The judicial discretion in a case of this nature is an exercise of official conscience, not arbitrarily, willfully, or passionately exercised, but based upon the facts' and circumstances of the particular case with regard to what is right and equitable under the applicable law and to the end of a just result. The appellant’s responsibility is to show a clear abuse of judicial discretion. [Cases cited omitted.]” * * * . . The trial judge fulfilled his responsibilities in this case by determining from the evidence before him the amount and the method of payment of the alimony.””
1 later decision 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.