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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1902 / Served to 1909

John H. Gillett

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

John H. Gillett was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1902. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1860–1920
Tenure: 1902–1909 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1902	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gillett authored 211 published opinions for the court (1902–1908), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co. v. Beckett (100 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. 210 of these were attributed to Gillett 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
1906	Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co. v. Beckett†	167 Ind. 491	100
1902	Parks v. State†	159 Ind. 211	69
1905	Glens Falls Insurance Co. v. Michael· Dissent	167 Ind. 659	68
1904	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Lightheiser†	163 Ind. 247	63
1905	M. S. Huey Co. v. Johnston†	164 Ind. 489	56
1907	Indianapolis Union Railway Co. v. Waddington†	169 Ind. 448	52
1907	Arnett v. State, ex rel. Donohue†	168 Ind. 180	52
1902	Board of Commissioners v. Gibson†	158 Ind. 471	52
1903	Southern Indiana Railway Co. v. Harrell†	161 Ind. 689	50
1907	McAdams v. Bailey†	169 Ind. 518	49
1906	Indianapolis Street Railway Co. v. Marschke†	166 Ind. 490	48
1906	Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. Slaughter†	167 Ind. 330	43
1905	Gipe v. State†	165 Ind. 433	43
1906	State ex rel. Western Construction Co. v. Board of Commissioners†	166 Ind. 162	41
1903	Gadbury v. Ohio & Indiana Consolidated Natural & Illuminating Gas Co.†	162 Ind. 9	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 213 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 H. Gillett on?: John H. Gillett was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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6 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).