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 1893 / Served to 1899

James McCabe

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

James McCabe was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1893. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1844–1911
Tenure: 1893–1899 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1893	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McCabe authored 300 published opinions for the court (1893–1898), plus 8 dissents. Most cited: Deal v. State (139 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. 308 of these were attributed to McCabe 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
1895	Deal v. State†	140 Ind. 354	139
1897	Hinshaw v. State†	147 Ind. 334	130
1898	Miller v. State†	149 Ind. 607	86
1898	State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Holliday†	150 Ind. 216	77
1896	Griffith v. Slinkard†	146 Ind. 117	69
1895	Woodward v. Mitchell†	140 Ind. 406	64
1894	Board of Commissioners v. Davis· Dissent†	136 Ind. 503	61
1894	Board of Commissioners v. Gwin†	136 Ind. 562	58
1896	Blough v. Parry†	144 Ind. 463	57
1895	Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Stick†	143 Ind. 449	57
1893	Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Co v. Wynant†	134 Ind. 681	57
1893	Smith v. Pedigo†	145 Ind. 361	56
1897	Shea v. City of Muncie†	148 Ind. 14	55
1893	Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. Madden†	134 Ind. 462	53
1894	Henderson v. State ex rel. Stout· Dissent†	137 Ind. 552	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 308 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 McCabe on?: James McCabe 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).