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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1899 / Served to 1911

John V. Hadley

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

John V. Hadley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1899. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1840–1915
Tenure: 1899–1911 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1899	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hadley authored 352 published opinions for the court (1899–1910), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Isenhour v. State (89 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. 358 of these were attributed to Hadley 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
1901	Isenhour v. State†	157 Ind. 517	89
1901	City of South Bend v. Turner†	156 Ind. 418	89
1905	Karges Furniture Co. v. Amalgamated Woodworkers Local Union No. 131†	165 Ind. 421	81
1906	Whitesell v. Strickler†	167 Ind. 602	71
1899	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Moore†	152 Ind. 345	59
1908	Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hilligoss†	171 Ind. 417	57
1900	Adams v. City of Shelbyville†	154 Ind. 467	56
1909	Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Gossett†	172 Ind. 525	55
1905	Continental Casualty Co. v. Lloyd†	165 Ind. 52	52
1903	Indiana Railway Co. v. Maurer†	160 Ind. 25	52
1901	Shirk v. Neible†	156 Ind. 66	51
1904	Consumers Gas Trust Co. v. Littler†	162 Ind. 320	50
1904	Hancock v. Diamond Plate Glass Co.†	162 Ind. 146	49
1901	Southern Indiana Railway Co. v. Peyton†	157 Ind. 690	49
1899	Lowery v. State Life Insurance†	153 Ind. 100	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 358 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 V. Hadley on?: John V. Hadley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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11 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).