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 1836 / Served to 1847

Charles Dewey

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Charles Dewey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1836. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1836–1847 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1836	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Williams College

Judicial Record

In our data, Dewey authored 371 published opinions for the court (1836–1847), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: M'Cormick v. Malin (46 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. 372 of these were attributed to Dewey 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
1841	M'Cormick v. Malin†	5 Blackf. 509	46
1845	Andrews v. Russell†	7 Blackf. 474	29
1840	M'Intire v. State†	5 Blackf. 384	28
1843	McIntire v. Young†	6 Blackf. 496	26
1846	Cross v. Carson†	8 Blackf. 138	23
1846	Lomax v. Bailey†	7 Blackf. 599	23
1844	Hays v. Mitchell†	7 Blackf. 117	23
1846	M'Cord v. Ochiltree†	8 Blackf. 15	22
1838	Foley v. Cowgill†	5 Blackf. 18	21
1837	Harris v. Doe, on the Demise of Barnett†	4 Blackf. 369	21
1845	Dob v. Abernathy†	7 Blackf. 442	20
1843	Wilson v. Black†	6 Blackf. 509	19
1840	White v. Conover†	5 Blackf. 462	17
1838	Rubottom v. M'Clure†	4 Blackf. 505	17
1846	Miller v. Edmonston†	8 Blackf. 291	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 372 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 Dewey on?: Charles Dewey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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10 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).