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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1990

Hans A. Linde

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Hans A. Linde was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1924 · age 102
Tenure: 1977–1990 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Reed College

Judicial Record

In our data, Linde authored 215 published opinions for the court (1977–1990), plus 43 dissents and 56 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Kennedy (519 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. 190 of these were attributed to Linde 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
1983	State v. Kennedy†	666 P.2d 1316	519
1987	Fazzolari v. Portland School District No. 1J	734 P.2d 1326	418
1982	State v. Robertson†	649 P.2d 569	334
1988	State v. Hitz†	766 P.2d 373	253
1978	Top Service Body Shop, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance	582 P.2d 1365	221
1977	Brown v. Multnomah County District Court	570 P.2d 52	214
1981	State v. Clark†	630 P.2d 810	211
1981	Sterling v. Cupp	625 P.2d 123	206
1981	Hall v. May Department Stores Co.†	637 P.2d 126	203
1982	Norwest v. Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital†	652 P.2d 318	170
1986	State v. Brown· Dissent†	721 P.2d 1357	168
1979	McPherson v. Employment Division†	591 P.2d 1381	168
1984	Holien v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.· Concurrence†	689 P.2d 1292	154
1985	State v. Moyle· Concurrence†	705 P.2d 740	152
1980	Megdal v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners	605 P.2d 273	147

Showing the 15 most-cited of 314 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 Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Hans A. Linde on?: Hans A. Linde was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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