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

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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1893 / Served to 1895

Joseph S. Dailey

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Joseph S. Dailey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1893. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1844–1905
Tenure: 1893–1895 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1893	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dailey authored 103 published opinions for the court (1893–1894). Most cited: Jackson v. Stanfield (50 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. 105 of these were attributed to Dailey 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
1894	Jackson v. Stanfield†	137 Ind. 592	50
1894	Walker v. Jameson†	140 Ind. 591	47
1894	Springer v. Byram†	137 Ind. 15	43
1894	Dyer v. Eldridge†	136 Ind. 654	40
1894	Brown v. First National Bank†	137 Ind. 655	39
1893	Thornburg v. Wiggins†	135 Ind. 178	39
1893	Thompson v. McCorkle†	136 Ind. 484	39
1894	Meador v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.†	138 Ind. 290	38
1894	Shirk v. Mitchell†	137 Ind. 185	37
1894	Dorsey Machine Co. v. McCaffrey†	139 Ind. 545	35
1894	Doren v. Gillum†	136 Ind. 134	31
1893	Shuck v. State ex rel. Cope†	136 Ind. 63	31
1894	Mayer v. Haggerty†	138 Ind. 628	30
1894	Brunson v. Henry†	140 Ind. 455	29
1894	Blake v. Minkner†	136 Ind. 418	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 106 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 Joseph S. Dailey on?: Joseph S. Dailey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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1 year 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).