164 Ind. App. 215 - Temple v. Temple’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Marriage of Myers v. Myers (1990), Meehan v. Meehan (1981)
42 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 151 Ind. App. 217 - Dudley Sports Co. v. Schmitt · 140 Ind. App. 139 - Kavanagh v. Butorac · McFarlan v. Fowler Bank City Trust Co. · Shula v. Shula · 148 Ind. App. 508 - Klinger v. CAYLOR
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"after considering such factors as the financial resources of the party seeking maintenance (including matrimonial property apportioned to her), the standard of living established in the marriage, duration of the marriage, and the ability of the spouse from whom maintenance is sought to meet his needs while meeting those of the spouse seeking maintenance. Even though the court finds a spouse's supportive ability is materially impaired, a maintenance award is not mandatory."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(d) A court may make the following findings concerning maintenance: (1) If the court finds a spouse to be physically or mentally incapacitated to the extent that the ability of such incapacitated spouse to support himself is materially affected, the court may find that maintenance for that spouse is necessary during any such incapacity, subject to further order of the court. (emphasis added)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Melnik v. Melnik · Paxton v. Paxton“clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances before the court, or the reasonable, probable, and actual deductions to be drawn therefrom.”
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.