# State v. Hoovler

> Indiana Supreme Court · August 7, 1996 · 668 N.E.2d 1229

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9526602

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Indiana and Indiana Department of Revenue, Appellants, (Defendants Below), v. Charles HOOVLER, Patricia Ann Palmer, Jeff Symmes, Linda L. Okos, Martin Okos, and Robert M. Stwalley, III, Individually and as Representatives for and on Behalf of All Other Taxpayers Similarly Situated, Appellees, (Plaintiffs Below)
- **Court:** Indiana Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 7, 1996
- **Citations:** 668 N.E.2d 1229; 1996 Ind. LEXIS 118; 1996 WL 445339
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Sullivan
- **Judges:** Dickson, Selby, Sullivan, Debruler, Shepard
- **Cited by:** 22 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that in interpreting a provision of the Indiana Constitution, "we seek the common understanding of both those who framed it and those who ratified it"

## Opinion text

SULLIVAN, Justice,
concurring in result.
I concur in the result of Justice Dickson's opinion. However, I would hold that the population-based categories contained in the statute fulfill the requirements for a valid general law set by a long line of decisions by this court. See, eg., North Twp. Advisory Bd. v. Mamala, 490 N.E.2d 725, 727 (Ind.1986); State Election Bd. v. Bartolomei, 434 N.E.2d 74, 77 (Ind.1982); Dortch v. Lugar, 255 Ind. 545, 552-53 , 266 N.E.2d 25, 31-32 (1971); Graves v. City of Muncie, 255 Ind. 360, 362 , 264 N.E.2d 607, 609 (1970); Bailey v. Evansville-Vanderburgh Airport Auth. Dist., 240 Ind. 401, 408-409 , 166 N.E.2d 520, 523-24 (1960); Bally v. Guilford Twp. Sch. Corp., 284 Ind. 278 , 279-80, 126 N.E.2d 13, 16-17 (1955), Groves v. Board of Comm'rs, 209 Ind. 371, 375-76 , 199 N.E. 137, 140 (1936) (citing additional cases). In Dorich v. Lugar, we upheld the constitutionality of a statute using population-based categories to create Unigov. What's good for Marion County ought be good for Tippecanoe County as well.
DeBRULER, J., joins.

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