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Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1951

Henry P. Hughes

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Henry P. Hughes was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1968
Tenure: 1948–1951 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Marquette University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hughes authored 121 published opinions for the court (1948–1951), plus 15 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Ainsworth v. Berg (43 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. 28 of these were attributed to Hughes 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
1948	Ainsworth v. Berg	35 N.W.2d 911	43
1949	Werner v. Riemer	39 N.W.2d 917	38
1949	State Ex Rel. Kowaleski v. District Court of Milwaukee County· Dissent	36 N.W.2d 419	31
1948	Yaun v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.	34 N.W.2d 853	28
1950	State Ex Rel. Schroedel v. Pagels	257 Wis. 376	27
1948	Nimits v. Motor Transport Co.	34 N.W.2d 116	25
1950	Morrill v. Komasinski	41 N.W.2d 620	22
1948	Hoehne v. Mittelstadt	31 N.W.2d 150	22
1950	Barrock v. Barrock	257 Wis. 565	18
1948	Commonwealth Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission	32 N.W.2d 247	17
1949	State v. Evjue· Concurrence	37 N.W.2d 50	16
1949	Papenfus v. Shell Oil Co.	35 N.W.2d 920	16
1950	Schutt v. City of Kenosha· Dissent†	258 Wis. 83	15
1950	General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Cosgrove†	257 Wis. 25	15
1951	Thurn v. La Crosse Liquor Co.	258 Wis. 448	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 139 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 Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Henry P. Hughes on?: Henry P. Hughes was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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