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

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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1875 / Served to 1881

Horace P. Biddle

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Horace P. Biddle was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1875. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1811–1900
Tenure: 1875–1881 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1875	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Biddle authored 578 published opinions for the court (1875–1880), plus 10 dissents. Most cited: City of Indianapolis v. Gaston (63 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. 591 of these were attributed to Biddle 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
1877	City of Indianapolis v. Gaston†	58 Ind. 224	63
1876	Wright v. Compton†	53 Ind. 337	61
1879	State v. Elder†	65 Ind. 282	60
1879	Burt v. Bowles†	69 Ind. 1	56
1880	Ex parte Walls†	73 Ind. 95	52
1879	City of Indianapolis v. Indianapolis Gas-Light & Coke Co.†	66 Ind. 396	51
1880	State v. Swift†	69 Ind. 505	49
1876	Bissot v. State†	53 Ind. 408	48
1879	Binns v. State†	66 Ind. 428	45
1876	Love v. Miller†	53 Ind. 294	43
1879	Ex parte Wright†	65 Ind. 504	40
1875	Board of Commissioners of Tippecanoe Co. v. Lafayette, Muncie, & Bloomington Railroad†	50 Ind. 85	40
1877	Swinney v. Ft. Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati R. R.†	59 Ind. 205	39
1879	State v. Hattabough· Dissent†	66 Ind. 223	38
1877	Gebhart v. Burkett†	57 Ind. 378	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 591 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 Supreme Court of Indiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Horace P. Biddle on?: Horace P. Biddle was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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