Sec. 1. Every court in Indiana shall take judicial notice of the common law and statutes of every state, territory, and other jurisdiction of the United States.
Ind. Code § 34-38-4-1
Judicial notice by Indiana courts
Known as the Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act
The act spans §§ 34-38-4-1 to 34-38-4-7 (7 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Sword v. NKC Hospitals, Inc. (1999)
Most recently applied in Storey v. Leonas (April 2009)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.34.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.