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 1881 / Served to 1883

Byron K. Elliott

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Byron K. Elliott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1881. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1853–1913
Tenure: 1881–1883 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1881	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Elliott authored 484 published opinions for the court (1881–1883), plus 13 dissents. Most cited: Sanders v. State (193 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. 506 of these were attributed to Elliott 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
1882	Sanders v. State†	85 Ind. 318	193
1883	Goodwin v. State†	96 Ind. 550	135
1881	Weis v. City of Madison†	75 Ind. 241	105
1881	City of Delphi v. Lowery†	74 Ind. 520	101
1881	Sims v. City of Frankfort†	79 Ind. 446	83
1882	Binford v. Johnston†	82 Ind. 426	81
1883	Nave v. Flack†	90 Ind. 205	77
1883	Mescall v. Tully†	91 Ind. 96	76
1881	Ross v. Thompson†	78 Ind. 90	76
1882	Purcell v. English†	86 Ind. 34	73
1881	Billman v. Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad†	76 Ind. 166	71
1881	Cummins v. City of Seymour†	79 Ind. 491	70
1882	Willcuts v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance†	81 Ind. 300	65
1881	Ricketts v. Spraker†	77 Ind. 371	65
1881	Wills v. Ross†	77 Ind. 1	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 506 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 Byron K. Elliott on?: Byron K. Elliott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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2 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).