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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1865 / Served to 1871

Charles A. Ray

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Charles A. Ray was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1865. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1829 · age 197
Tenure: 1865–1871 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1865	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Brown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ray authored 318 published opinions for the court (1865–1870), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Bradley v. State (92 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. 321 of these were attributed to Ray 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
1869	Bradley v. State†	31 Ind. 492	92
1868	Palmer v. Stumph†	29 Ind. 329	71
1870	Crocket v. State†	33 Ind. 416	69
1870	Bellefontaine Railway Co. v. Hunter†	33 Ind. 335	67
1865	Deardorff v. Foresman†	24 Ind. 481	52
1869	State ex rel. McCarty v. Pepper†	31 Ind. 76	45
1867	Provident Life Insurance & Investment Co. v. Baum†	29 Ind. 236	41
1867	Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Co. v. Vining's Administrator†	27 Ind. 513	39
1866	Glidewell v. Spaugh†	26 Ind. 319	37
1867	Lafayette & Indianapolis Railroad v. Huffman†	28 Ind. 287	35
1868	Hellenkamp v. City of Lafayette†	30 Ind. 192	33
1865	Louisville & New Albany Railroad v. State ex rel. McCarty†	25 Ind. 177	31
1867	Street v. Chapman†	29 Ind. 142	30
1869	O'Reiley v. Kankakee Valley Draining Co.†	32 Ind. 169	29
1866	Mitchell v. Williams†	27 Ind. 62	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 321 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 A. Ray on?: Charles A. Ray was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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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).