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

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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1943 / Served to 1961

Adolph E. Wenke

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Adolph E. Wenke was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1961
Tenure: 1943–1961 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wenke authored 185 published opinions for the court (1943–1961), plus 18 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Rettinger ex rel. Standard Oil Co. v. Pierpont (80 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. 212 of these were attributed to Wenke 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
1944	Rettinger ex rel. Standard Oil Co. v. Pierpont†	145 Neb. 161	80
1943	Landrum v. Roddy†	143 Neb. 934	80
1944	Maher v. State†	144 Neb. 463	78
1944	Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District v. County of Lincoln†	144 Neb. 584	60
1944	Langdon v. Loup River Public Power District†	144 Neb. 325	60
1943	Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank v. Barnes†	143 Neb. 58	55
1948	Remmenga v. Selk†	150 Neb. 401	52
1945	Bend v. Marsh†	145 Neb. 780	51
1945	Messecar v. Marsh†	145 Neb. 559	43
1949	Wright v. Barclay†	151 Neb. 94	42
1955	Bartek v. Glasers Provisions Co.†	71 N.W.2d 466	41
1949	Boeche v. State· Concurrence†	151 Neb. 368	41
1949	Schluter v. State· Dissent†	151 Neb. 284	41
1949	Fimple v. Archer Ballroom Co.†	150 Neb. 681	41
1948	Buresh v. George†	149 Neb. 340	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 214 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Adolph E. Wenke on?: Adolph E. Wenke was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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