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 1911 / Served to 1917

Douglas J. Morris

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Douglas J. Morris was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1911. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1861–1928
Tenure: 1911–1917 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1911	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Asbury University

Judicial Record

In our data, Morris authored 249 published opinions for the court (1911–1916), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Domestic Block Coal Co. v. DeArmey (140 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. 256 of these were attributed to Morris 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
1913	Domestic Block Coal Co. v. DeArmey†	179 Ind. 592	140
1912	Ellingham v. Dye· Dissent†	178 Ind. 336	99
1911	New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Roper†	176 Ind. 497	69
1912	Crawfordsville Trust Co. v. Ramsey†	178 Ind. 258	50
1916	State ex rel. Williams v. Ellis†	184 Ind. 307	48
1912	Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Smith†	177 Ind. 524	46
1916	Kelso v. Cook†	184 Ind. 173	44
1916	Aldred v. Sylvester†	184 Ind. 542	43
1914	Bruns v. Cope†	182 Ind. 289	41
1915	Barr v. Sumner†	183 Ind. 402	39
1912	Brown v. Kistleman†	177 Ind. 692	39
1914	State v. Patterson†	181 Ind. 660	36
1911	Vail v. Page†	175 Ind. 126	36
1914	Friebe v. Elder†	181 Ind. 597	34
1914	Metsker v. Whitsell†	181 Ind. 126	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 256 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 Douglas J. Morris on?: Douglas J. Morris 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).