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 1899 / Served to 1905

Alexander Dowling

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Alexander Dowling was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1899. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1839–1917
Tenure: 1899–1905 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1899	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dowling authored 226 published opinions for the court (1899–1904), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Monteith v. Kokomo Wood Enameling Co. (60 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. 227 of these were attributed to Dowling 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
1902	Monteith v. Kokomo Wood Enameling Co.†	159 Ind. 149	60
1900	Blume v. State†	154 Ind. 343	48
1899	Hamilton v. Love†	152 Ind. 641	46
1904	Indianapolis Street Railway Co. v. Schmidt†	163 Ind. 360	41
1903	Whisler v. Whisler†	162 Ind. 136	40
1904	School City of Rushville v. Hayes†	162 Ind. 193	39
1902	State ex rel. Lewis v. Smith· Dissent†	158 Ind. 543	38
1900	Stevens v. Leonard†	154 Ind. 67	38
1904	Wolverton v. Wolverton†	163 Ind. 26	37
1903	Seiler v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners· Dissent†	160 Ind. 605	37
1902	Wheeler v. State†	158 Ind. 687	37
1900	Eel River Railroad v. State ex rel. Kistler†	155 Ind. 433	37
1903	Levy v. State†	161 Ind. 251	36
1900	Goodrich v. Stangland†	155 Ind. 279	36
1899	Colip v. State†	153 Ind. 584	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 229 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 Alexander Dowling on?: Alexander Dowling was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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5 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).