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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1971 / Served to 1982

Lawrence M. Clinton

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Lawrence M. Clinton was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1982
Tenure: 1971–1982 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Creighton University

Judicial Record

In our data, Clinton authored 208 published opinions for the court (1971–1982), plus 78 dissents and 61 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Alvarez (186 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. 337 of these were attributed to Clinton 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
1972	State v. Alvarez†	202 N.W.2d 604	186
1977	Prendergast v. Nelson· Concurrence†	256 N.W.2d 657	136
1977	State v. Rust†	250 N.W.2d 867	131
1973	Hawkins Construction Co. v. Matthews Co., Inc.· Concurrence†	209 N.W.2d 643	109
1977	Davco Realty Co. v. Picnic Foods, Inc.· Dissent†	252 N.W.2d 142	103
1982	State v. Moore†	316 N.W.2d 33	90
1979	Imig v. March· Dissent†	279 N.W.2d 382	77
1976	DeLay First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Jacobson Appliance Co.· Dissent†	243 N.W.2d 745	77
1979	Hancock v. Paccar, Inc.· Dissent†	283 N.W.2d 25	76
1981	State v. Palmer· Concurrence†	313 N.W.2d 648	73
1980	Occidental Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Venco Partnership· Concurrence†	293 N.W.2d 843	64
1972	School District of Seward Education Ass'n v. School District· Dissent†	199 N.W.2d 752	64
1972	Dwyer v. Omaha-Douglas Public Building Commission†	188 Neb. 30	60
1971	Kohler v. Ford Motor Company†	191 N.W.2d 601	58
1972	Abbott v. Abbott· Concurrence†	195 N.W.2d 204	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 347 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 Lawrence M. Clinton on?: Lawrence M. Clinton was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).