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Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1993 / Active

Alan C. Page

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Alan C. Page is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, serving since 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: Since 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Page authored 251 published opinions for the court (1993–2015), plus 190 dissents and 105 concurrences. Most cited: Fabio v. Bellomo (547 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. 546 of these were attributed to Page 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
1993	Fabio v. Bellomo· Dissent†	504 N.W.2d 758	547
2000	American Family Insurance Group v. Schroedl†	616 N.W.2d 273	367
2004	Bernhardt v. State· Concurrence†	684 N.W.2d 465	280
1999	State v. Harris· Dissent†	590 N.W.2d 90	207
2010	State v. Andersen· Concurrence†	784 N.W.2d 320	190
2010	State v. Al-Naseer†	788 N.W.2d 469	181
2000	Hoang Minh Ly v. Nystrom· Concurrence†	615 N.W.2d 302	167
1995	Lubbers v. Anderson†	539 N.W.2d 398	155
2002	State v. Strommen†	648 N.W.2d 681	147
2007	Leake v. State†	737 N.W.2d 531	146
2014	State of Minnesota v. Jose Arriage Soto, Jr.· Dissent†	855 N.W.2d 303	135
1999	Fletcher v. St. Paul Pioneer Press· Dissent†	589 N.W.2d 96	135
1995	In Re Hennepin County 1986 Recycling Bond Litigation· Dissent†	540 N.W.2d 494	127
2005	State v. Shattuck†	704 N.W.2d 131	124
2015	State of Minnesota v. William Robert Bernard, Jr.· Dissent†	859 N.W.2d 762	123

Showing the 15 most-cited of 546 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Alan C. Page on?: Alan C. Page is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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