Pierce v. Pierce

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A parent may not sow seeds of discord and reap improved custody rights.”
• “The trial court found that [father] behaved in such way as to deprive [mother] of an opportunity to materially participate in the children’s upbringing. If the reasonableness of joint custody were not at issue, this course of conduct would not support a change in custody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carmichael v. Siegel
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-08-31· cited 112×
• Hanson v. Spolnik
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1997-08-29· cited 75×
• Joe v. Lebow
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-07-18· cited 61×
• Haley v. Haley
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-07-18· cited 44×
• Phillip J. Troyer v. Tracy L. Troyer
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-04-30· cited 39×
• Meade v. Levett
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-08-15· cited 35×
• In Re Paternity of MPMW
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-07-09· cited 24×
• Marriage of Spoor v. Spoor
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-10-31· cited 12×
• Marriage of Huffman v. Huffman
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-11-16· cited 6×
• Doubiago v. McClarney
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-12-27· cited 5×
• Kelly Cornell F/K/A Kelly Cornell Mecartney v. David Laurence Mecartney
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2025-09-03· cited 4×
• A.W. v. Z.B.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-07-09· cited 1×
• In Re the Paternity of N.W., M.A. v. N.W. (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-17
• Jenny R. (Willison) Eggerling v. Anthony Willison (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-05-13
• In re the Marriage of: David A. Anzelmo v. Elizabeth M. Anzelmo (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-08-31
• J.R.H. v. O.M.H. (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-08-10
• In Re: The Paternity of V.A.C., Benjamin T. Colburn v. Raliza v. Pashova (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-07-03
• In the Matter of Paternity of B.Y., Andrea Yanes-Mirabal v. Pardeep Badasay
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2020-12-18

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lamb v. Wenning
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-10-05· cited 71×
• Marriage of Poret v. Martin
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-05-07· cited 53×
• Wible v. Wible
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1964-03-05· cited 51×
• Marriage of Pea v. Pea
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1986-10-09· cited 39×
• Musselman v. Musselman
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1873-11-15· cited 33×
• Elbert v. Elbert
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-09-30· cited 31×
• Marriage of Wilk v. Wilk
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-12-05· cited 27×
• Simons v. Simons
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-02-11· cited 26×
• Owen v. Owen
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-12-13· cited 26×
• Whalen v. Whalen
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-01-29· cited 17×
• Dunlap v. Dunlap
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1985-03-28· cited 16×
• Marshall County Redi-Mix, Inc. v. Matthew
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-01-16· cited 16×
• Schenk v. Schenk
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-01-17· cited 14×
• Riddlesbarger v. Riddlesbarger
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1944-11-06· cited 13×
• Drake v. Washburn
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-03-18· cited 12×
• In Re Paternity of Seifert
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-01-19· cited 9×
• Beeson v. Christian
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-12-31· cited 8×
• In Re the Marriage of Ferguson
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1988-02-23· cited 7×
• Strand Amusement Co. v. City of Owensboro
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1932-03-15· cited 6×
• Marriage of Bingaman v. Bingaman
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-11-06· cited 5×