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 1911 / Served to 1917

Charles E. Cox

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Charles E. Cox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1911. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1860–1936
Tenure: 1911–1917 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1911	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cox authored 160 published opinions for the court (1911–1916), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Ellingham v. Dye (99 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. 168 of these were attributed to Cox 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
1912	Ellingham v. Dye†	178 Ind. 336	99
1913	Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Dinius†	180 Ind. 596	70
1913	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Poetker†	180 Ind. 255	70
1912	Luther v. State†	177 Ind. 619	50
1913	Glover v. State†	179 Ind. 459	48
1912	Robinson v. State†	177 Ind. 263	46
1915	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Home Insurance†	183 Ind. 355	43
1915	Dobosky v. State†	183 Ind. 488	42
1912	Ohio Valley Trust Co. v. Wernke†	179 Ind. 49	42
1912	Wainwright v. P. H. & F. M. Roots Co.†	176 Ind. 682	41
1911	Balzer v. Waring†	176 Ind. 585	41
1911	Messel v. State†	176 Ind. 214	40
1911	Carr v. State†	175 Ind. 241	39
1914	Wiley v. Gordon†	181 Ind. 252	38
1911	Daniels v. Bruce†	176 Ind. 151	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 168 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 Charles E. Cox on?: Charles E. Cox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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5 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).