How do judges of the Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1940 / Served to 1965

John W. Yeager

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

John W. Yeager was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1967
Tenure: 1940–1965 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Yeager authored 284 published opinions for the court (1941–1964), plus 38 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Archer v. Musick (90 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. 326 of these were attributed to Yeager 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
1947	Archer v. Musick· Dissent†	147 Neb. 1018	90
1961	State Ex Rel. Nebraska State Bar Ass'n v. Butterfield· Dissent†	111 N.W.2d 543	62
1944	Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District v. County of Lincoln· Concurrence†	144 Neb. 584	60
1963	Farmers Co-operative Mercantile Co. v. Sidner†	175 Neb. 94	54
1942	Axberg v. City of Lincoln· Concurrence†	141 Neb. 55	54
1943	Gillan v. Equitable Life Assurance Society†	143 Neb. 647	52
1941	Wahlgren v. Loup River Public Power District†	139 Neb. 489	45
1963	State v. Eberhardt†	125 N.W.2d 1	42
1948	Washington v. Drake†	150 Neb. 568	42
1958	Exstrum v. Union Casualty and Life Insurance Co.· Dissent†	91 N.W.2d 632	41
1949	Schluter v. State· Concurrence†	151 Neb. 284	41
1947	Specht v. Specht†	148 Neb. 325	41
1956	Greer v. Chelewski· Dissent†	76 N.W.2d 438	38
1943	Fisher v. Keeler†	142 Neb. 728	38
1942	State ex rel. Quinn v. Marsh†	141 Neb. 436	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 330 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 W. Yeager on?: John W. Yeager was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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24 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).