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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1917 / Served to 1920

Lawson M. Harvey

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Lawson M. Harvey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1917. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1856–1920
Tenure: 1917–1920 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1917	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Butler University
Haverford College

Judicial Record

In our data, Harvey authored 39 published opinions for the court (1917–1920). Most cited: Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. v. Stevenson (41 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. 40 of these were attributed to Harvey 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
1919	Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. v. Stevenson†	189 Ind. 100	41
1918	Farmers' & Merchants' Co-operative Telephone Co. v. Boswell Telephone Co.†	187 Ind. 371	23
1917	Union Trust Co. v. Curtis†	186 Ind. 516	18
1920	Independent Five & Ten Cent Stores v. Heller†	189 Ind. 554	16
1919	Nation v. Green†	188 Ind. 697	13
1920	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Kearns†	191 Ind. 1	12
1918	Coon v. Coon†	187 Ind. 478	11
1917	Union Traction Co. v. Haworth· Separate†	187 Ind. 451	11
1917	State v. Eldridge†	186 Ind. 330	10
1919	Vandalia Railroad v. Schnull†	188 Ind. 87	8
1919	Public Service Commission v. Frazee†	188 Ind. 573	6
1919	State v. Brumfiel†	188 Ind. 584	5
1919	Clift v. Southern Railway Co.†	188 Ind. 472	5
1917	Board of Commissioners v. Workman†	186 Ind. 280	5
1919	Smith v. State†	188 Ind. 501	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 Lawson M. Harvey on?: Lawson M. Harvey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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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).