180 Ind. App. 528 - Schoffstall v. Failey’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably K.S. v. R.S. (1996), Putnam County Hospital v. Sells (1993)
30 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 Lubben v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 27 · State v. Lindsey · 156 Ind. App. 46 - State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Oliverius · 178 Ind. App. 228 - McGaharan v. City of Fort Wayne · INDIANA STATE BOARD OF TAX COM'RS v. Pappas
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the interest of finality, the concept of void judgment is narrowly construed. While absence of subject matter jurisdiction may make a judgment void, such total want of jurisdiction must be distinguished from an error in the exercise of jurisdiction. A court has the power to determine its own jurisdiction and an error in that jurisdiction will not render the judgment void. Only in the rare instance of a clear usurpation of power will a judgment be rendered void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DuShane v. DuShane“A court's determination that it has jurisdiction of the subject matter is res judicata on that issue ... if a party had an opportunity to contest subject matter jurisdiction and failed to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DuShane v. DuShane“"Where the record does not disclose the lack of jurisdiction, we cannot presume that it was absent. If we indulge in any presumption, it must be in favor of the trial court's action."”
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.