How do judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1853 / Served to 1858

Addison L. Roache

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Addison L. Roache was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1853. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1817–1906
Tenure: 1853–1858 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1853	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Roache authored 59 published opinions for the court (1853). Most cited: Brown v. Brown (26 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 59 of these were attributed to Roache by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1853	Brown v. Brown†	4 Ind. 627	26
1853	Leach v. Leach†	4 Ind. 628	23
1853	Clark v. State†	4 Ind. 156	19
1853	Reed v. Coale†	4 Ind. 283	15
1853	Slevin v. Morrow†	4 Ind. 425	14
1853	Detro v. State†	4 Ind. 200	11
1853	Rogers v. Evans†	3 Ind. 574	11
1853	Henline v. Hall†	4 Ind. 189	9
1853	Doe on the demise of Harlan v. Brown†	4 Ind. 143	8
1853	State v. Phipps†	4 Ind. 515	7
1853	Abbott v. Smith†	4 Ind. 452	7
1853	Ball v. Carley†	3 Ind. 577	7
1853	McCarty v. Pruett†	4 Ind. 226	6
1853	Taylor v. State ex rel. White†	4 Ind. 540	5
1853	Polleys v. Swope†	4 Ind. 217	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 59 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Addison L. Roache on?: Addison L. Roache was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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4 years on the Supreme Court of Indiana. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).