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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1943 / Served to 1953

Clarence R. Magney

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Clarence R. Magney was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1962
Tenure: 1943–1953 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Gustavus Adolphus College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Magney authored 216 published opinions for the court (1943–1953), plus 17 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: The Alexander Co. v. City of Owatonna (59 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. 27 of these were attributed to Magney 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
1946	The Alexander Co. v. City of Owatonna· Dissent	24 N.W.2d 244	59
1951	Jackson v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.	234 Minn. 52	50
1951	Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.†	235 Minn. 304	45
1950	Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Spaeth· Concurrence†	232 Minn. 128	41
1950	Mork v. Eureka-Security Fire & Marine Insurance Co.	230 Minn. 382	37
1947	Beckman v. Schroeder	28 N.W.2d 629	33
1950	Blair v. Espeland	231 Minn. 444	32
1945	State, by Peterson v. Anderson	19 N.W.2d 70	32
1949	Wiedemann v. Wiedemann· Concurrence	36 N.W.2d 810	30
1949	Jacobsen v. Dailey	36 N.W.2d 711	30
1951	First National Bank of Mankato v. Wilson	234 Minn. 160	29
1945	State Ex Rel. Dufault v. Utecht	19 N.W.2d 706	29
1944	State v. Minnesota Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n	15 N.W.2d 568	29
1952	Fetsch v. Holm	236 Minn. 158	28
1948	Land O' Lakes Dairy Co. v. Village of Sebeka· Dissent	31 N.W.2d 660	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 238 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Clarence R. Magney on?: Clarence R. Magney was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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