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

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1953 / Served to 1969

Harry Scott Harnsberger

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Harry Scott Harnsberger was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1975
Tenure: 1953–1969 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Harnsberger authored 154 published opinions for the court (1953–1968), plus 11 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Bulova Watch Co. v. Zale Jewelry Co. of Cheyenne (57 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. 148 of these were attributed to Harnsberger 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
1962	Bulova Watch Co. v. Zale Jewelry Co. of Cheyenne†	371 P.2d 409	57
1963	Marathon Oil Company v. Welch· Concurrence†	379 P.2d 832	48
1959	Maffei v. Incoporated Town of Kemmerer†	338 P.2d 808	44
1958	State v. Alexander†	324 P.2d 831	44
1961	Day v. Armstrong†	362 P.2d 137	43
1962	Alm v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company†	369 P.2d 216	39
1959	Stringer v. Miller†	343 P.2d 508	36
1953	Laughton v. Laughton	259 P.2d 1093	36
1957	Arnold v. State	306 P.2d 368	33
1958	Redwine v. Fitzhugh†	329 P.2d 257	32
1962	Wambeke v. Hopkin· Dissent†	372 P.2d 470	31
1959	Maffei v. Incorporated Town of Kemmerer†	340 P.2d 759	31
1954	State v. ANN HELTON	276 P.2d 434	31
1963	Witzel v. Witzel†	386 P.2d 103	30
1964	Kuntz v. Kinne†	395 P.2d 286	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 174 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 Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Harry Scott Harnsberger on?: Harry Scott Harnsberger was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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