159 Ind. App. 540 - McCarthy v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Charles Lynde v. Mary W Lynde Mary W Lynde · 158 Ind. App. 43 - Bob Layne Contractor, Inc. v. Buennagel · 120 Ind. App. 1 - Carson v. Carson · 150 Ind. App. 640 - McCarthy v. McCarthy · 154 Ind. App. 545 - Crown Point Community School Corp. v. Richards
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) the former judgment must have been rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction; (2) the matter now in issue was, or might have been, determined in the former suit; (3) the particular controversy adjudicated in the former action must have been between the parties to the present suit; (4) judgment in the former suit must have been rendered on the merits.”
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.