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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1934 / Served to 1955

George E. Bushnell

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

George E. Bushnell was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1965
Tenure: 1934–1955 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bushnell authored 879 published opinions for the court (1934–1954), plus 54 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Bricker v. Green (135 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. 54 of these were attributed to Bushnell 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
1946	Bricker v. Green	21 N.W.2d 105	135
1935	Boyer-Campbell Co. v. Fry	260 N.W. 165	121
1954	Rookledge v. Garwood	65 N.W.2d 785	95
1946	Rohan v. Detroit Racing Association· Concurrence	22 N.W.2d 433	83
1934	Watrous v. Conor	254 N.W. 143	78
1935	Gledhill v. Fisher & Co.	262 N.W. 371	75
1942	Manion v. State Highway Commissioner	5 N.W.2d 527	74
1951	Bradley v. Stevens	46 N.W.2d 382	71
1948	Webster v. Rotary Electric Steel Co.	33 N.W.2d 69	67
1954	People v. Pickett	63 N.W.2d 681	63
1938	Joy v. Two-Bit Corporation	283 N.W. 45	55
1943	Senefsky v. City of Huntington Woods· Dissent	12 N.W.2d 387	53
1943	Hersey Gravel Co. v. State Highway Department	9 N.W.2d 567	53
1950	Lynch v. Briggs Manufacturing Co.	45 N.W.2d 20	50
1942	Harvey v. Silber	2 N.W.2d 483	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 954 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 Michigan Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was George E. Bushnell on?: George E. Bushnell was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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