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Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1930 / Served to 1957

Edward T. Fairchild

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Edward T. Fairchild was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1872–1965
Tenure: 1930–1957 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fairchild authored 931 published opinions for the court (1930–1956), plus 83 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. Wisconsin Development Authority v. Dammann (93 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. 509 of these were attributed to Fairchild 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
1938	State ex rel. Wisconsin Development Authority v. Dammann· Dissent†	228 Wis. 147	93
1937	Stammer v. Kitzmiller†	226 Wis. 348	71
1944	Patterson v. Jensen· Dissent	17 N.W.2d 423	59
1936	American Furniture Co. v. I. B.· Dissent†	222 Wis. 338	52
1943	George Williams College v. Village of Williams Bay	7 N.W.2d 891	49
1948	Ainsworth v. Berg· Dissent	35 N.W.2d 911	43
1945	Clintonville Transfer Line, Inc. v. Public Service Commission· Dissent	21 N.W.2d 5	42
1933	Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Milwaukee General Construction Co.†	213 Wis. 302	42
1934	Neitzke v. Kraft-Phenix Dairies, Inc.†	214 Wis. 441	41
1934	Trampe v. Wisconsin Telephone Co.	252 N.W. 675	41
1939	Seibel v. Leach	288 N.W. 774	40
1947	State Ex Rel. Keefe v. Schmiege	28 N.W.2d 345	39
1936	Senn v. Tile Layers Protective Union, Local No. 5†	222 Wis. 383	38
1952	State Ex Rel. Broughton v. Zimmerman· Dissent†	261 Wis. 398	37
1941	McLoughlin v. Malnar	297 N.W. 370	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,020 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 Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Edward T. Fairchild on?: Edward T. Fairchild was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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