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 1885 / Served to 1890

Joseph A.S. Mitchell

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Joseph A.S. Mitchell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1885. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1837–1890
Tenure: 1885–1890 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1885	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mitchell authored 645 published opinions for the court (1885–1890), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad v. Newell (107 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. 648 of these were attributed to Mitchell 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
1885	Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad v. Newell†	104 Ind. 264	107
1885	Pennsylvania Co. v. Marion†	104 Ind. 239	106
1886	Wallace v. Long†	105 Ind. 522	101
1889	Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Buck†	116 Ind. 566	95
1890	Quill v. City of Indianapolis†	124 Ind. 292	90
1888	State ex rel. Carson v. Harrison†	113 Ind. 434	89
1886	Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. Hazelett†	105 Ind. 212	84
1885	Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. Griffin†	100 Ind. 221	81
1887	Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Locke†	112 Ind. 404	78
1886	Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Frawley†	110 Ind. 18	78
1889	State ex rel. Jameson v. Denny· Dissent†	118 Ind. 382	77
1885	John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Patterson†	103 Ind. 582	77
1886	City of Indianapolis v. Emmelman†	108 Ind. 530	74
1885	Mayhew v. Burns†	103 Ind. 328	74
1890	Aszman v. State†	123 Ind. 347	73

Showing the 15 most-cited of 654 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 A.S. Mitchell on?: Joseph A.S. Mitchell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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5 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).