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 1927 / Served to 1933

Clarence B. Martin

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Clarence B. Martin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1927. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1972
Tenure: 1927–1933 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1927	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Martin authored 131 published opinions for the court (1926–1933), plus 22 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Fountain Park Co. v. Hensler (74 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. 3 of these were attributed to Martin 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
1927	Fountain Park Co. v. Hensler	155 N.E. 465	74
1929	Sarlls, City Clerk v. State, Ex Rel.	166 N.E. 270	72
1930	Zoercher v. Agler	172 N.E. 186	70
1932	Mack v. State	180 N.E. 279	62
1932	Stephenson v. State· Dissent	179 N.E. 633	61
1931	City of Logansport v. Public Service Commission	177 N.E. 249	57
1929	Wertheimer & Goldberg v. State	169 N.E. 40	50
1927	Wallace v. State· Dissent	157 N.E. 657	48
1932	School City of Elwood v. State Ex Rel. Griffin	180 N.E. 471	44
1931	Cox v. State	177 N.E. 898	43
1931	In Re Petitions to Transfer Appeals From Appellate Court to Supreme Court	174 N.E. 812	42
1932	Duckworth v. Duckworth	179 N.E. 773	40
1930	General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. City of Indianapolis	172 N.E. 309	38
1928	Davis v. State	161 N.E. 375	35
1930	Bryant v. School Town of Oakland City	171 N.E. 378	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 159 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 Clarence B. Martin on?: Clarence B. Martin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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6 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).