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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1990 / Served to 1993

Jon D. Krahulik

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Jon D. Krahulik was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1944–2005
Tenure: 1990–1993 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Krahulik authored 145 published opinions for the court (1991–1993), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Webb v. Jarvis (485 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. 16 of these were attributed to Krahulik 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
1991	Webb v. Jarvis	575 N.E.2d 992	485
1992	Egly v. Blackford County Department of Public Welfare	592 N.E.2d 1232	359
1993	Erie Insurance v. Hickman Ex Rel. Smith	622 N.E.2d 515	332
1991	Cullison v. Medley	570 N.E.2d 27	191
1991	Spradlin v. State	569 N.E.2d 948	191
1991	Shuamber v. Henderson	579 N.E.2d 452	176
1993	McCullough v. Archbold Ladder Co.	605 N.E.2d 175	152
1991	Modesitt v. State	578 N.E.2d 649	151
1992	Sullivan v. American Cas. Co. of Reading, Pa.	605 N.E.2d 134	134
1992	Wehling v. Citizens National Bank	586 N.E.2d 840	133
1991	Brady v. State· Dissent†	575 N.E.2d 981	128
1993	James v. State	613 N.E.2d 15	108
1993	Jordan v. Deery	609 N.E.2d 1104	102
1992	Malachowski v. Bank One, Indianapolis	590 N.E.2d 559	87
1992	State v. Rendleman	603 N.E.2d 1333	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 151 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 Jon D. Krahulik on?: Jon D. Krahulik was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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3 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).