181 Ind. App. 304 - Blake v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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

1. “'The basic elements of res adjudicata are four-fold: (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; and (4) judgment in the former suit must have been rendered on the merits. Middlekamp v. Hanewich (1977), 178 Ind.App. 571 , 864 N.E.2d 1024 , 1088; Crown Point School Corp. v. Richards (1973), 154 Ind.App. 545, 549 , 290 N.E.2d 449, 452 ; Wright v. Kinnard (1970), 147 Ind. App. 484, 488 , 262 N.E.2d 196, 199-200 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moxley v. Indiana National Bank · State Exchange Bank of Culver v. Teague

2. “The rule that every question which might have been decided or litigated in a cause will be presumed to have been decided means that every question which was within the issues, and which under the issues might have been proved, will be presumed to have been proved and adjudicated. [Emphasis added].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rees v. Heyser