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 1955 / Served to 1965

Frederick Landis

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Frederick Landis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–1990
Tenure: 1955–1965 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Wabash College

Judicial Record

In our data, Landis authored 77 published opinions for the court (1955–1965), plus 9 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Kiefer v. State (133 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. 93 of these were attributed to Landis 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
1958	Kiefer v. State· Concurrence†	153 N.E.2d 899	133
1965	Miller v. Alvey†	207 N.E.2d 633	82
1965	White v. Evansville American Legion Home Association†	210 N.E.2d 845	46
1959	State ex rel. Indiana High School Athletic Ass'n v. Lawrence Circuit Court†	240 Ind. 114	43
1965	Denton v. State†	203 N.E.2d 539	39
1962	New York Central Railroad Co. v. Glad· Dissent†	179 N.E.2d 571	39
1962	City of Terre Haute v. Deckard†	183 N.E.2d 815	37
1960	Flowers v. Bd. of Comrs. of Vanderburgh County†	168 N.E.2d 224	37
1965	JAY v. State†	206 N.E.2d 128	35
1959	Northern Ind. Pub. Serv. Co. v. McCOY ET UX.· Dissent†	157 N.E.2d 181	35
1957	Cantwell v. Cantwell†	143 N.E.2d 275	32
1957	Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. v. Shane Co., Inc.· Dissent†	143 N.E.2d 415	31
1955	State v. Minton†	130 N.E.2d 226	29
1959	Guthrie v. Wilson†	162 N.E.2d 79	27
1963	State Ex Rel. Latham v. Spencer Circuit Court†	194 N.E.2d 606	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 Frederick Landis on?: Frederick Landis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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10 years 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).