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 2018 / Active

Jonathan J. Papik

Associate Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Jonathan J. Papik is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Papik authored 31 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Leahy (388 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. 34 of these were attributed to Papik 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
2018	State v. Leahy†	301 Neb. 228	388
2019	State ex rel. Peterson v. Creative Comm. Promotions†	302 Neb. 606	373
2019	State v. Lovvorn†	303 Neb. 844	352
2019	State v. Briggs†	303 Neb. 352	313
2018	State v. Tucker†	301 Neb. 856	221
2019	State v. Brown†	302 Neb. 53	220
2019	State v. Heather N. (In Re Michael N.)· Concurrence†	302 Neb. 652	209
2019	State v. Martinez†	302 Neb. 526	162
2018	State v. Garcia†	301 Neb. 912	160
2018	Lindsay Int'l Sales & Serv., LLC v. Wegener†	301 Neb. 1	148
2018	Estate of Schluntz v. Lower Republican Natural Res. Dist.†	300 Neb. 582	145
2018	State v. Steele†	300 Neb. 617	134
2019	Simms v. Friel†	302 Neb. 1	127
2018	DeLima v. Tsevi†	301 Neb. 933	115
2019	Prokop v. Lower Loup Natural Res. Dist.· Concurrence†	302 Neb. 10	114

Showing the 15 most-cited of 34 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 is Jonathan J. Papik on?: Jonathan J. Papik is an Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 years on the Nebraska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).