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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1943 / Served to 1953

Halleck J. Mantz

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Halleck J. Mantz was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1958
Tenure: 1943–1953 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mantz authored 133 published opinions for the court (1943–1952), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: State v. Stafford (54 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. 10 of these were attributed to Mantz 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	State v. Stafford	23 N.W.2d 832	54
1945	Blakeley v. Estate of Shortal	20 N.W.2d 28	41
1944	Thuente v. Hart Motors· Dissent	15 N.W.2d 622	36
1945	State v. Knox	18 N.W.2d 716	34
1950	State v. Ebelsheiser	43 N.W.2d 706	32
1943	Iowa Methodist Hospital v. Long	12 N.W.2d 171	32
1952	Blundi v. Blundi· Dissent†	55 N.W.2d 239	31
1950	State v. Saltzman· Dissent†	44 N.W.2d 24	30
1950	Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Bettendorf	41 N.W.2d 1	30
1945	State v. Schenk	18 N.W.2d 169	28
1947	State v. Rowe	26 N.W.2d 422	24
1950	Popejoy v. Eastburn	41 N.W.2d 764	22
1945	In Re Estate of Parish	20 N.W.2d 32	20
1951	Roller v. Independent Silo Co.†	242 Iowa 1277	19
1945	Hampton v. Burrell· Dissent	17 N.W.2d 110	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 Iowa Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Halleck J. Mantz on?: Halleck J. Mantz was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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