How do judges of the South Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

South Dakota Supreme Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1971

Frederick J. Homeyer

Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court

Frederick J. Homeyer was a Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1914 · age 112
Tenure: 1962–1971 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	South Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Homeyer authored 88 published opinions for the court (1963–1970), plus 15 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company (469 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. 18 of these were attributed to Homeyer 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
1968	Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company	157 N.W.2d 19	469
1970	Nachtigall v. Erickson	178 N.W.2d 198	113
1969	Kunkel v. United Security Ins. Co. of New Jersey	168 N.W.2d 723	80
1963	State v. Reddington	125 N.W.2d 58	77
1969	Blow v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles	164 N.W.2d 351	72
1968	Hannahs v. Noah	158 N.W.2d 678	71
1964	State Ex Rel. Burns v. Erickson	129 N.W.2d 712	70
1967	Nugent v. Quam· Dissent†	152 N.W.2d 371	69
1965	State v. Zobel· Dissent†	134 N.W.2d 101	67
1965	Cromwell v. Hosbrook	134 N.W.2d 777	63
1963	Alberts v. Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Co.	123 N.W.2d 96	60
1966	State Highway Commission v. Hayes Estate	140 N.W.2d 680	59
1966	Conway v. Humbert· Concurrence†	145 N.W.2d 524	56
1963	SCHULL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. Koenig	121 N.W.2d 559	47
1964	Renner v. Crisman	127 N.W.2d 717	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 105 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 South Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Frederick J. Homeyer on?: Frederick J. Homeyer was a Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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