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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1963

Harold J. Warner

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Harold J. Warner was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1982
Tenure: 1950–1963 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Oregon
University of Oregon

Judicial Record

In our data, Warner authored 191 published opinions for the court (1950–1962), plus 13 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Multnomah School of Bible v. Multnomah County (106 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. 176 of these were attributed to Warner 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
1959	Multnomah School of Bible v. Multnomah County†	343 P.2d 893	106
1961	MacEwan v. HOLM· Dissent†	359 P.2d 413	93
1961	Oregon Methodist Homes, Inc. v. State Tax Commission†	360 P.2d 293	80
1961	Lane County v. R. A. Heintz Construction Co.†	364 P.2d 627	76
1958	Milwaukie Co. of Jehovah's Witnesses v. Mullen†	330 P.2d 5	73
1962	Gordon Creek Tree Farms, Inc. v. Layne· Separate†	368 P.2d 737	68
1958	Bliss v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.†	321 P.2d 324	65
1955	Nordling v. Johnston· Dissent†	287 P.2d 420	62
1957	Monaghan v. School District No. 1	315 P.2d 797	59
1960	Panushka v. Panushka†	349 P.2d 450	50
1957	State v. Waterhouse· Dissent†	307 P.2d 327	47
1951	Swift & Co. v. Peterson†	233 P.2d 216	45
1957	Keyes v. CHAMBERS	307 P.2d 498	44
1955	Schweigert v. Beneficial Standard Life Insurance†	282 P.2d 621	43
1952	Elwert v. Elwert	248 P.2d 847	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 211 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 Harold J. Warner on?: Harold J. Warner 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).