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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1951 / Served to 1963

Arch N. Bobbitt

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Arch N. Bobbitt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1978
Tenure: 1951–1963 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bobbitt authored 255 published opinions for the court (1951–1962), plus 22 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Pokraka v. Lummus Co. (293 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. 86 of these were attributed to Bobbitt 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
1952	Pokraka v. Lummus Co.	104 N.E.2d 669	293
1958	Kiefer v. State	153 N.E.2d 899	133
1956	Guy v. SCHULDT· Dissent†	138 N.E.2d 891	133
1953	Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc.	111 N.E.2d 280	126
1958	Book v. State Office Building Commission	149 N.E.2d 273	99
1957	New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Henderson· Dissent†	146 N.E.2d 531	91
1960	Asc Corporation v. First Nat. Bank, Etc.	167 N.E.2d 460	77
1955	Public Service Commission v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.	130 N.E.2d 467	77
1955	Hinds v. McNair· Dissent†	235 Ind. 34	77
1955	NOBLE CTY. COUNCIL ETC. v. State Ex Rel. Fifer· Concurrence†	125 N.E.2d 709	76
1958	Matthews v. State	148 N.E.2d 334	74
1957	Wedmore v. State	143 N.E.2d 649	74
1953	City of East Chicago v. Sinclair Refining Co.	111 N.E.2d 459	72
1960	State v. ENSLEY	164 N.E.2d 342	67
1956	Taylor v. Fitzpatrick	132 N.E.2d 919	64

Showing the 15 most-cited of 294 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 Arch N. Bobbitt on?: Arch N. Bobbitt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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12 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).