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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1971 / Served to 1986

Dixon W. Prentice

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Dixon W. Prentice was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1919 · age 107
Tenure: 1971–1986 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Prentice authored 696 published opinions for the court (1971–1986), plus 52 dissents and 49 concurrences. Most cited: Loyd v. State (405 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. 192 of these were attributed to Prentice 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
1980	Loyd v. State	398 N.E.2d 1260	405
1975	Patterson v. State	324 N.E.2d 482	344
1982	Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Armstrong	442 N.E.2d 349	271
1971	White v. State	272 N.E.2d 312	253
1973	Skendzel v. Marshall· Concurrence†	301 N.E.2d 641	189
1976	Vernon Fire & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Sharp· Dissent†	349 N.E.2d 173	181
1971	Weaver v. American Oil Company· Dissent†	276 N.E.2d 144	166
1981	Shideler v. Dwyer	417 N.E.2d 281	164
1983	Raymundo v. Hammond Clinic Ass'n	449 N.E.2d 276	146
1981	Page v. State	424 N.E.2d 1021	137
1972	Hash v. State	284 N.E.2d 770	130
1984	Smith v. State	459 N.E.2d 355	128
1976	Sidle v. Majors	341 N.E.2d 763	126
1973	Lindsey v. State	295 N.E.2d 819	124
1978	Reid v. State	372 N.E.2d 1149	114

Showing the 15 most-cited of 798 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 Dixon W. Prentice on?: Dixon W. Prentice was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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15 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).