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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1993

John T. Grant

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

John T. Grant was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–2010
Tenure: 1983–1993 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Creighton University

Judicial Record

In our data, Grant authored 81 published opinions for the court (1976–1993), plus 35 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Interest of DMB (91 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. 127 of these were attributed to Grant 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
1992	In Re Interest of DMB· Dissent†	481 N.W.2d 905	91
1988	State v. Trevino· Concurrence†	432 N.W.2d 503	91
1989	State Ex Rel. Spire v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.· Dissent†	445 N.W.2d 284	62
1989	Distinctive Printing & Packaging Co. v. Cox· Dissent†	443 N.W.2d 566	61
1991	Ruwe v. Farmers Mutual United Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	469 N.W.2d 129	60
1990	State v. Plant· Concurrence†	461 N.W.2d 253	57
1991	Collection Specialists, Inc. v. Vesely†	238 Neb. 181	54
1985	State v. Sutton· Dissent†	368 N.W.2d 492	51
1992	State v. Franklin†	489 N.W.2d 552	49
1989	State v. Texel· Concurrence†	433 N.W.2d 541	48
1985	Ford v. Jordan· Dissent†	370 N.W.2d 714	45
1990	LeDoux v. LeDoux· Concurrence†	452 N.W.2d 1	43
1984	State v. Kinney†	350 N.W.2d 552	41
1988	Carnes v. Weesner†	428 N.W.2d 493	34
1992	Haselhorst v. State†	485 N.W.2d 180	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 132 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was John T. Grant on?: John T. Grant was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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