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 1947 / Served to 1959

James A. Emmert

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

James A. Emmert was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1974
Tenure: 1947–1959 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Emmert authored 225 published opinions for the court (1947–1958), plus 43 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Baker v. State (202 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. 79 of these were attributed to Emmert 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
1956	Baker v. State	138 N.E.2d 641	202
1956	Public Service Commission v. City of Indianapolis· Concurrence†	131 N.E.2d 308	168
1949	Gamble v. Lewis	85 N.E.2d 629	136
1953	Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc.· Dissent†	111 N.E.2d 280	126
1956	Flowers v. State	139 N.E.2d 185	107
1958	Book v. State Office Building Commission· Concurrence†	149 N.E.2d 273	99
1957	New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Henderson· Concurrence†	146 N.E.2d 531	91
1952	Corbridge v. Corbridge	102 N.E.2d 764	86
1955	Public Service Commission v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.· Concurrence†	130 N.E.2d 467	77
1955	Madison v. State	130 N.E.2d 35	77
1949	Kallas v. State	83 N.E.2d 769	76
1955	New York Cent. RR Co. v. JOHNSON, ADMX., ETC.	127 N.E.2d 603	75
1958	Matthews v. State· Dissent†	148 N.E.2d 334	74
1957	Wedmore v. State· Dissent†	143 N.E.2d 649	74
1950	Northern Indiana Transit, Inc. v. Burk	89 N.E.2d 905	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 294 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 James A. Emmert on?: James A. Emmert was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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12 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).