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Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1956

Earl C. Latourette

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Earl C. Latourette was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1956
Tenure: 1950–1956 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Oregon
University of Oregon

Judicial Record

In our data, Latourette authored 122 published opinions for the court (1950–1956), plus 6 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Cannon v. Gladden (98 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. 109 of these were attributed to Latourette 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
1955	Cannon v. Gladden	281 P.2d 233	98
1953	State Ex Rel. Ricco v. Biggs· Concurrence†	255 P.2d 1055	93
1952	Rea v. Rea· Concurrence†	245 P.2d 884	90
1954	State of Oregon v. Kuhnhausen· Concurrence†	272 P.2d 225	51
1955	State of Oregon v. Cory	282 P.2d 1054	43
1952	Marr v. Putnam· Dissent†	246 P.2d 509	42
1953	State of Oregon v. Buck	262 P.2d 495	40
1950	Young v. NEILL†	225 P.2d 66	38
1955	Mallison v. Pomeroy†	291 P.2d 225	37
1955	McEwen v. McEwen	280 P.2d 402	37
1954	Caveny v. ASHEIM· Dissent†	274 P.2d 281	37
1953	State of Oregon v. Blount, Sr.· Concurrence†	264 P.2d 419	37
1952	Wintersteen v. Semler†	255 P.2d 138	36
1955	Johnson v. Timber Structures, Inc.	281 P.2d 723	31
1952	Shelton v. LOWELL†	249 P.2d 958	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 137 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 Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Earl C. Latourette on?: Earl C. Latourette was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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