How do judges of the Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1971

Edward F. Carter

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Edward F. Carter was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1981
Tenure: 1935–1971 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carter authored 988 published opinions for the court (1935–1971), plus 81 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Turner (161 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. 647 of these were attributed to Carter 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
1971	State v. Turner	183 N.W.2d 763	161
1971	State v. Randolph	183 N.W.2d 225	130
1937	In Re Integration of the Nebraska State Bar Ass'n	133 Neb. 283	130
1965	Stewart v. McCauley· Dissent†	133 N.W.2d 921	100
1961	United Services Automobile Association v. Hills†	109 N.W.2d 174	93
1968	Brown v. City of Omaha· Dissent†	160 N.W.2d 805	89
1966	Goodman v. Goodman	141 N.W.2d 445	85
1943	Shiman Bros. & Co. v. Nebraska National Hotel Co.†	143 Neb. 404	83
1959	Pullen v. Novak	99 N.W.2d 16	82
1937	Swanson v. State†	132 Neb. 82	75
1960	Lincoln Dairy Company v. Finigan	104 N.W.2d 227	72
1951	Drabbels v. Skelly Oil Co.†	50 N.W.2d 229	68
1939	Nelsen v. Tilley†	137 Neb. 327	68
1955	Frank v. Russell	70 N.W.2d 306	65
1935	Plattsmouth Loan & Building Ass'n v. Sedlak†	128 Neb. 509	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,096 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Edward F. Carter on?: Edward F. Carter was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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