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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 2008 / Served to 2010

Eric J. Magnuson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Eric J. Magnuson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 2008–2010 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

William Mitchell College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Magnuson authored 26 published opinions for the court (2008–2010), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Lee v. Lee (64 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. 5 of these were attributed to Magnuson 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
2009	Lee v. Lee	775 N.W.2d 631	64
2010	Brayton v. Pawlenty	781 N.W.2d 357	57
2009	General Casualty Co. of Wisconsin v. Wozniak Travel, Inc.· Dissent†	762 N.W.2d 572	55
2010	Krueger v. Zeman Construction Co.	781 N.W.2d 858	52
2010	In Re the Welfare of J.B.	782 N.W.2d 535	48
2010	State v. Stein	776 N.W.2d 709	48
2009	State v. Pendleton	759 N.W.2d 900	44
2010	State v. McDaniel	777 N.W.2d 739	40
2010	State v. Lopez	778 N.W.2d 700	35
2010	Kidwell v. Sybaritic, Inc.· Concurrence†	784 N.W.2d 220	32
2009	State v. Burrell	772 N.W.2d 459	25
2010	State v. Chavarria-Cruz	784 N.W.2d 355	21
2009	State v. Fort	768 N.W.2d 335	20
2009	Fleeger v. Wyeth	771 N.W.2d 524	19
2009	Minnesota Voters Alliance v. City of Minneapolis	766 N.W.2d 683	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 30 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Eric J. Magnuson on?: Eric J. Magnuson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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