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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1953 / Served to 1954

Dan C. Flanagan

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Dan C. Flanagan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1960
Tenure: 1953–1954 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Flanagan authored 51 published opinions for the court (1953–1954). Most cited: Public Service Commission v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. (41 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. 24 of these were attributed to Flanagan 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
1953	Public Service Commission v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.· Separate†	108 N.E.2d 889	41
1954	Doughty v. State Department of Public Welfare	121 N.E.2d 645	26
1953	Stallings v. State	114 N.E.2d 771	16
1954	Mitchell v. State	115 N.E.2d 595	13
1954	City of Indianapolis v. Buckner	116 N.E.2d 507	13
1953	NELSON v. Haley	111 N.E.2d 812	12
1954	Taylor v. State	120 N.E.2d 165	11
1954	Lunce, Reynolds v. State	122 N.E.2d 5	10
1954	State Ex Rel. Collins v. Lake Superior Court	121 N.E.2d 731	10
1954	Gross Income Tax Division v. Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp.	118 N.E.2d 117	10
1954	State ex rel. Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission v. Superior Court†	233 Ind. 563	7
1954	Lake County Property Owners Ass'n v. Holovachka	120 N.E.2d 263	5
1954	Johnson v. State	119 N.E.2d 717	5
1953	Kirkman v. State	114 N.E.2d 878	5
1953	Wilson v. State	111 N.E.2d 709	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 52 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 Dan C. Flanagan on?: Dan C. Flanagan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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1 year 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).