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 1919 / Served to 1931

Benjamin M. Willoughby

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Benjamin M. Willoughby was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1919. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1855–1940
Tenure: 1919–1931 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1919	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Willoughby authored 213 published opinions for the court (1919–1930), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Callender v. State (83 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. 98 of these were attributed to Willoughby 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
1922	Callender v. State†	193 Ind. 91	83
1929	Masonic Accident Insurance v. Jackson	164 N.E. 628	65
1921	Howard v. State†	191 Ind. 232	57
1921	Morgan v. State†	190 Ind. 411	42
1923	Crabbs v. State†	193 Ind. 248	39
1929	Berry v. State	165 N.E. 61	37
1923	Perfect v. State	141 N.E. 52	36
1921	Harlan v. State†	190 Ind. 322	32
1921	Lee v. State†	191 Ind. 515	31
1919	Davis v. Babb†	190 Ind. 173	30
1929	Goodman v. Daly, Warden	165 N.E. 906	29
1926	Alyea v. State	152 N.E. 801	29
1929	Cassidy v. State	168 N.E. 18	27
1921	Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.†	191 Ind. 141	27
1919	Fauvre Coal Co. v. Kushner†	188 Ind. 314	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 219 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 Benjamin M. Willoughby on?: Benjamin M. Willoughby was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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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).