# Citizens National Bank of Evansville v. Foster

> Indiana Supreme Court · August 7, 1996 · 668 N.E.2d 1236

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9526578

## Case

- **Full name:** The CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF EVANSVILLE, Appellant (Plaintiff Below), v. Roland B. FOSTER, Jr. and Carolyn J. Foster, Appellees (Defendants Below)
- **Court:** Indiana Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 7, 1996
- **Citations:** 668 N.E.2d 1236; 1996 Ind. LEXIS 123; 1996 WL 450965
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Sullivan
- **Judges:** Shepard, Debruler, Selby, Sullivan, Dickson
- **Cited by:** 40 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Declined to follow by a later decision, 465 F.3d 309 (2006).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9526578

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing that the constitutional problem is that the statutes “allows debtors to shield an unlimited amount of assets in a life insurance policy or policies”
- recognizing that a facial challenge “demands a sweeping pronouncement of the [legislative enactment’s] constitutionality regardless of the factual setting”
- noting that a facial challenge “demands a sweeping pronouncement of the statute[’s] constitutionality regardless of the factual setting”

## Opinion text

SULLIVAN, Justice,
concurring.
Although I dissented in Matter of Zumbrun, 626 N.E.2d 452, 456 (Ind.1993) (Sullivan, J., dissenting), I consider the interpretation of Article I, § 22, of the Indiana Constitution stare decisis for purposes of this opinion and for that reason concur.

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