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Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1964 / Served to 1983

Bruce F. Beilfuss

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Bruce F. Beilfuss was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1986
Tenure: 1964–1983 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Beilfuss authored 689 published opinions for the court (1964–1985), plus 22 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Dippel v. Sciano (300 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. 78 of these were attributed to Beilfuss 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
1967	Dippel v. Sciano	37 Wis. 2d 443	300
1976	Lister v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System	240 N.W.2d 610	280
1971	State v. Paszek	184 N.W.2d 836	170
1975	Ocanas v. State	233 N.W.2d 457	146
1975	Garriguenc v. Love	226 N.W.2d 414	136
1976	Lawver v. Boling	238 N.W.2d 514	134
1983	DePratt v. West Bend Mutual Insurance	334 N.W.2d 883	116
1971	Bautista v. State	191 N.W.2d 725	112
1977	State v. Asfoor	249 N.W.2d 529	110
1975	Dumer v. St. Michael's Hospital	233 N.W.2d 372	106
1976	State v. Tarrell	247 N.W.2d 696	103
1980	Pickens v. State	292 N.W.2d 601	100
1966	State v. Shoffner· Dissent†	31 Wis. 2d 412	98
1983	Strid v. Converse	331 N.W.2d 350	95
1969	State Ex Rel. Kurkierewicz v. Cannon· Concurrence†	166 N.W.2d 255	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 720 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 Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Bruce F. Beilfuss on?: Bruce F. Beilfuss was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 years on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).