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 1871 / Served to 1875

Andrew L. Osborn

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Andrew L. Osborn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1871. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1871–1875 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1871	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Osborn authored 151 published opinions for the court (1872–1874). Most cited: Water Works Co. v. Burkhart (73 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. 151 of these were attributed to Osborn 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
1872	Water Works Co. v. Burkhart†	41 Ind. 364	73
1874	Board of Commissioners v. Markle†	46 Ind. 96	69
1873	Sherlock v. Alling†	44 Ind. 184	54
1873	Oliver v. Pate†	43 Ind. 132	49
1873	McDill v. Gunn†	43 Ind. 315	45
1874	Staley v. Jameson†	46 Ind. 159	32
1874	Richardson v. Howk†	45 Ind. 451	30
1873	Boaz v. Tate†	43 Ind. 60	30
1873	Atherton v. Toney†	43 Ind. 211	29
1873	Wild v. Deig†	43 Ind. 455	29
1873	Gavin v. Graydon†	41 Ind. 559	28
1874	Lindsay v. Lindsay†	47 Ind. 283	27
1873	Sanxay v. Hunger†	42 Ind. 44	27
1873	Newman v. Sylvester†	42 Ind. 106	27
1873	Bell v. State†	42 Ind. 335	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 151 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 Andrew L. Osborn on?: Andrew L. Osborn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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3 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).