How do judges of the Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1938 / Served to 1940

Harvey M. Johnsen

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Harvey M. Johnsen was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1938. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1975
Tenure: 1938–1940 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1938	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnsen authored 49 published opinions for the court (1939–1940), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Lennox v. Housing Authority (61 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. 63 of these were attributed to Johnsen 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
1940	Lennox v. Housing Authority· Dissent†	137 Neb. 582	61
1939	Micek v. Omaha Steel Works†	136 Neb. 843	37
1940	Ziegenbein v. Damme†	138 Neb. 320	30
1939	State ex rel. Fischer v. City of Lincoln†	137 Neb. 97	20
1939	Solomon v. A. W. Farney, Inc.· Dissent†	136 Neb. 338	20
1940	Thompson v. Edler†	138 Neb. 179	18
1939	Bauer v. Bauer†	136 Neb. 329	17
1939	Carter v. Parsons†	136 Neb. 515	16
1939	Hansen v. Paxton & Vierling Iron Works†	135 Neb. 867	15
1940	Bauer v. State Game, Forestation & Parks Commission· Dissent†	138 Neb. 436	14
1940	Maxwell v. Hamel· Dissent†	138 Neb. 49	14
1940	Morris v. Morris†	137 Neb. 660	14
1940	Cornell v. State†	138 Neb. 708	12
1940	Bruntz v. State†	137 Neb. 565	11
1940	Schmidt v. City of Lincoln†	137 Neb. 546	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 63 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 Harvey M. Johnsen on?: Harvey M. Johnsen was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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