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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1889 / Served to 1891

John G. Berkshire

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

John G. Berkshire was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1889. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1832–1891
Tenure: 1889–1891 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1889	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Berkshire authored 220 published opinions for the court (1889–1891), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: City of Evansville v. State ex rel. Blend (83 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. 226 of these were attributed to Berkshire 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
1889	City of Evansville v. State ex rel. Blend†	118 Ind. 426	83
1889	Peters v. Banta†	120 Ind. 416	54
1890	Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co. v. Howard†	124 Ind. 280	53
1890	State ex rel. Clark v. Haworth, School Trustee of Monroe School Township· Dissent†	122 Ind. 462	50
1890	Woodward v. Murdock†	124 Ind. 439	48
1890	Reese v. Western Union Telegraph Co.†	123 Ind. 294	47
1889	State ex rel. Yancey v. Hyde†	121 Ind. 20	47
1889	Daugherty v. Rogers· Dissent†	119 Ind. 254	46
1889	Bowen v. Swander†	121 Ind. 164	44
1890	Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Stommel†	126 Ind. 35	42
1890	Indiana Insurance v. Hartwell†	123 Ind. 177	42
1889	Martin v. Martin†	118 Ind. 227	41
1889	Colchen v. Ninde†	120 Ind. 88	39
1889	Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Hart†	119 Ind. 273	35
1889	State v. Sevier†	117 Ind. 338	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 226 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 John G. Berkshire on?: John G. Berkshire was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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2 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).