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 1883 / Served to 1885

Edwin P. Hammond

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Edwin P. Hammond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1883. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1835–1920
Tenure: 1883–1885 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1883	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hammond authored 174 published opinions for the court (1883–1885). Most cited: City of Indianapolis v. Cook (49 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. 176 of these were attributed to Hammond 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
1884	City of Indianapolis v. Cook†	99 Ind. 10	49
1884	Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Reed†	96 Ind. 195	46
1883	Brown v. Anderson†	90 Ind. 93	33
1884	Butler University v. Conard†	94 Ind. 353	32
1883	Woollen v. Whitacre†	91 Ind. 502	32
1883	Norris v. Casel†	90 Ind. 143	32
1883	McDonel v. State†	90 Ind. 320	32
1884	Martin v. Pifer†	96 Ind. 245	30
1883	Drinkout v. Eagle Machine Works†	90 Ind. 423	30
1884	Bartlett v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co.†	94 Ind. 281	29
1883	West v. West†	89 Ind. 529	29
1884	Feibleman v. State ex rel. Brown†	98 Ind. 516	27
1884	Cottrell v. Ætna Life Insurance†	97 Ind. 311	27
1884	State ex rel. Braden v. Krug†	94 Ind. 366	27
1883	Anderson v. Caldwell†	91 Ind. 451	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 176 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 Edwin P. Hammond on?: Edwin P. Hammond was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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1 year 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).