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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1895 / Served to 1913

Leander J. Monks

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Leander J. Monks was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1895. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1843 · age 183
Tenure: 1895–1913 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1895	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Monks authored 744 published opinions for the court (1895–1912), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Lightheiser (133 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. 743 of these were attributed to Monks 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
1906	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Lightheiser†	168 Ind. 438	133
1899	Consolidated Stone Co. v. Summit†	152 Ind. 297	108
1907	Bedford Quarries Co. v. Bough†	168 Ind. 671	87
1896	Lowe v. Turpie†	147 Ind. 652	83
1899	Ransdel v. Moore†	153 Ind. 393	79
1897	Shields v. State†	149 Ind. 395	77
1898	Evans v. State†	150 Ind. 651	72
1895	Wenning v. Teeple†	144 Ind. 189	72
1908	State ex rel. Board of Commissioners v. Board of Commissioners†	170 Ind. 595	70
1907	Eacock v. State†	169 Ind. 488	70
1896	Mulvane v. Rude†	146 Ind. 476	67
1896	Citizens' National Bank v. Judy†	146 Ind. 322	65
1895	Smith v. Wabash Railroad†	141 Ind. 92	65
1897	Evansville Ice & Cold Storage Co. v. Winsor†	148 Ind. 682	64
1896	Oleson v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.†	143 Ind. 405	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 746 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 Leander J. Monks on?: Leander J. Monks was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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17 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).