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Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1925 / Served to 1943

George Agler Eberly

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

George Agler Eberly was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1958
Tenure: 1925–1943 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Eberly authored 432 published opinions for the court (1925–1943), plus 8 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Drainage District No. 1 v. Kirkpatrick-Pettis Co. (85 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. 441 of these were attributed to Eberly 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
1941	Drainage District No. 1 v. Kirkpatrick-Pettis Co.†	140 Neb. 530	85
1937	State ex rel. Wright v. Barney†	133 Neb. 676	77
1933	State ex rel. Sorensen v. Nebraska State Bank†	124 Neb. 449	68
1939	Hadley v. Corey†	137 Neb. 204	61
1942	Magner v. Kinney· Dissent†	141 Neb. 122	51
1939	Chilen v. Commercial Casualty Insurance†	135 Neb. 619	48
1927	Knaak v. Brown†	115 Neb. 260	48
1939	Enyeart v. City of Lincoln†	136 Neb. 146	45
1926	Jessup v. Davis	115 Neb. 1	43
1941	Coffin v. Old Line Life Insurance†	138 Neb. 857	40
1939	Bose v. Knutzen†	136 Neb. 156	39
1938	State ex rel. English v. Ruback†	135 Neb. 335	39
1932	Ancient v. Board of County Commissioners†	122 Neb. 586	39
1930	Elmen v. State Board of Equalization & Assessment†	120 Neb. 141	39
1935	LeBarron v. City of Harvard†	129 Neb. 460	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 443 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was George Agler Eberly on?: George Agler Eberly was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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