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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1883 / Served to 1889

Allen Zollars

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Allen Zollars was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1883. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1839–1909
Tenure: 1883–1889 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1883	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Denison University
Denison University

Judicial Record

In our data, Zollars authored 273 published opinions for the court (1883–1889), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Adams (147 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. 279 of these were attributed to Zollars 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
1886	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Adams†	105 Ind. 151	147
1888	Branch v. Faust†	115 Ind. 464	101
1884	Carver v. Carver†	97 Ind. 497	98
1883	Earle v. Earle†	91 Ind. 27	81
1886	Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Jones†	108 Ind. 551	68
1884	Smith v. Hess†	91 Ind. 424	67
1885	Carthage Turnpike Co. v. Andrews†	102 Ind. 138	63
1888	Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Wright†	115 Ind. 378	62
1885	Storms v. Stevens†	104 Ind. 46	61
1883	Buchanan v. Berkshire Life Insurance†	96 Ind. 510	59
1884	Stockwell v. State ex rel. Johnson†	101 Ind. 1	58
1887	Cline v. Lindsey†	110 Ind. 337	56
1885	Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railway Co. v. Bush†	101 Ind. 582	55
1886	Middleton v. Greeson†	106 Ind. 18	53
1886	Landwerlen v. Wheeler†	106 Ind. 523	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 280 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 Allen Zollars on?: Allen Zollars was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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6 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).