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 1923 / Served to 1925

Fred C. Gause

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Fred C. Gause was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1944
Tenure: 1923–1925 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gause authored 51 published opinions for the court (1923–1924), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Chesterfield v. State (39 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. 28 of these were attributed to Gause 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
1923	Chesterfield v. State†	194 Ind. 282	39
1924	Volderauer v. State	143 N.E. 674	38
1924	St. Vincent's Hospital v. Stine	144 N.E. 537	30
1924	Jackson v. State ex rel. South Bend Motor Bus Co.†	194 Ind. 248	28
1924	Diamond v. State	144 N.E. 250	27
1924	Asher v. State†	194 Ind. 553	27
1923	Baldwin v. State†	194 Ind. 303	27
1924	Sterling Fire Insurance v. Comision Reguladora Del Mercado De Henequen	143 N.E. 2	23
1924	Thomas v. City of Indianapolis	145 N.E. 550	22
1924	Huff v. Fetch†	194 Ind. 570	22
1924	Rokvic v. State†	194 Ind. 450	21
1924	Quilliam v. Union Trust Co.†	194 Ind. 521	21
1923	Faulkner v. State†	193 Ind. 663	21
1924	Overman v. State†	194 Ind. 483	18
1924	Follett v. Sheldon, Treas.	144 N.E. 867	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 52 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 Fred C. Gause on?: Fred C. Gause was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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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).