How do judges of the Iowa Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1860 / Served to 1863

Caleb Baldwin

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Caleb Baldwin was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1860. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1824 · age 202
Tenure: 1860–1863 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1860	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baldwin authored 261 published opinions for the court (1860–1863), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Stout v. City Fire Insurance Co. of New Haven (31 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. 263 of these were attributed to Baldwin 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
1861	Stout v. City Fire Insurance Co. of New Haven†	12 Iowa 371	31
1860	State v. Groome†	10 Iowa 308	31
1862	Fromme v. Jones†	13 Iowa 474	30
1860	Boyd v. Ellis†	11 Iowa 97	30
1863	Clark, Dodge & Co. v. City of Davenport†	14 Iowa 494	29
1861	State v. Marvin†	12 Iowa 499	27
1863	Griffin v. Seymour†	15 Iowa 30	25
1861	City of Davenport v. Mississippi & Missouri Railroad†	12 Iowa 539	24
1860	State v. Tomlinson†	11 Iowa 401	23
1863	Lamb v. Shays†	14 Iowa 567	22
1860	Rector v. Smith†	11 Iowa 302	21
1861	Burlington & Missouri River Railroad v. Spearman†	12 Iowa 112	20
1863	Mississippi & Missouri Railroad v. Byington†	14 Iowa 572	19
1862	Barney v. Barney†	14 Iowa 189	19
1861	Dawson v. Dawson†	12 Iowa 512	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 263 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 Iowa Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Caleb Baldwin on?: Caleb Baldwin was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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