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168 Ind. App. 59 - Eppley v. Eppley’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
states following
July 2002
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably In the Matter of Floyd Raymond Woods Appeal of Judith Jean Crabb Objecting, 176 Ind. App. 89 - Savage v. Savage (1978)

2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

2301976198019902000decided

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 Shula v. Shula · Cooper v. State · Loeb v. Loeb · 148 Ind. App. 496 - Boshonig v. Boshonig · 132 Ind. App. 99 - Draime v. Draime

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

  1. “"* * * [The determination of the amount of child support to be paid, if any, is a matter firmly committed to the discretion of the trial court. As such it is reviewable only on the ground of abuse, and will be reversed or modified only where an abuse is clearly shown. . ." (Citations omitted)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Branstad v. Branstad
  2. “could encourage parties to secrete, conceal or otherwise divest themselves of certain properties during the period between separation and divorcee so as to distort the true nature and value of marital property.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Marriage of Sloss
  3. “alimony in Indiana is nothing more than a property settlement worked out by the court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brinkmann v. Brinkmann

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.