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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1945 / Served to 1963

Leland W. Carr

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Leland W. Carr was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1969
Tenure: 1945–1963 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carr authored 635 published opinions for the court (1945–1964), plus 38 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Mitcham v. City of Detroit (557 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. 118 of these were attributed to Carr 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
1959	Mitcham v. City of Detroit· Concurrence†	94 N.W.2d 388	557
1961	Williams v. City of Detroit	111 N.W.2d 1	302
1960	Parker v. Port Huron Hospital· Dissent†	105 N.W.2d 1	190
1960	Montgomery v. Stephan· Dissent†	101 N.W.2d 227	164
1960	Wycko v. Gnodtke· Dissent†	105 N.W.2d 118	159
1959	Lahti v. Fosterling· Dissent†	99 N.W.2d 490	133
1957	Sheppard v. Michigan National Bank· Dissent†	83 N.W.2d 614	126
1946	Dation v. Ford Motor Co.	22 N.W.2d 252	108
1958	Crilly v. Ballou· Dissent†	91 N.W.2d 493	103
1961	Maddux v. Donaldson· Dissent†	108 N.W.2d 33	92
1953	People v. Asta	60 N.W.2d 472	92
1959	Bluemer v. Saginaw Central Oil & Gas Service, Inc.	97 N.W.2d 90	77
1958	Timmis v. Bennett	89 N.W.2d 748	77
1946	Socony Vacuum Oil Co. v. Marvin	21 N.W.2d 841	77
1958	People v. Dorrikas	92 N.W.2d 305	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 700 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 Michigan Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Leland W. Carr on?: Leland W. Carr was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 years on the Michigan Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).