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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1967 / Served to 1977

John E. Newton

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

John E. Newton was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1984
Tenure: 1967–1977 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Newton authored 179 published opinions for the court (1967–1977), plus 43 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. City of Omaha (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. 236 of these were attributed to Newton 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
1968	Brown v. City of Omaha· Dissent†	160 N.W.2d 805	89
1977	State v. Holtan†	250 N.W.2d 876	71
1972	School District of Seward Education Ass'n v. School District· Dissent†	199 N.W.2d 752	64
1972	Dwyer v. Omaha-Douglas Public Building Commission· Dissent†	188 Neb. 30	60
1973	Krueger v. Callies†	208 N.W.2d 685	58
1971	Kohler v. Ford Motor Company· Dissent†	191 N.W.2d 601	58
1967	Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society v. County of Gage†	151 N.W.2d 446	52
1974	Vodehnal v. Grand Island Daily Independent†	218 N.W.2d 220	49
1971	Stucky v. Stucky· Dissent†	185 N.W.2d 656	48
1971	Garden City Production Credit Assn. v. Lannan· Dissent†	186 N.W.2d 99	43
1973	State v. Myers· Concurrence†	209 N.W.2d 345	42
1972	Major Liquors, Inc. v. City of Omaha†	198 N.W.2d 483	42
1967	Stadler v. Curtis Gas, Inc.· Dissent†	151 N.W.2d 915	36
1975	State v. Bell†	233 N.W.2d 920	34
1975	Hickman v. Southwest Dairy Suppliers, Inc.· Concurrence†	230 N.W.2d 99	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 247 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 E. Newton on?: John E. Newton 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).