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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1893 / Served to 1899

Leonard J. Hackney

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Leonard J. Hackney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1893. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1855–1938
Tenure: 1893–1899 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1893	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hackney authored 367 published opinions for the court (1893–1898), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Faris v. Hoberg (127 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. 379 of these were attributed to Hackney 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
1893	Faris v. Hoberg†	134 Ind. 269	127
1896	Denney v. State ex rel. Basler· Concurrence†	144 Ind. 503	82
1893	Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. Duel†	134 Ind. 156	82
1896	Board of Commissioners v. Bonebrake†	146 Ind. 311	69
1896	Fowler v. Duhme†	143 Ind. 248	67
1894	Board of Commissioners v. Davis†	136 Ind. 503	61
1893	Parker v. Pennsylvania Co.†	134 Ind. 673	57
1893	Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad v. Spilker· Dissent†	134 Ind. 380	57
1894	Tewksbury v. Howard†	138 Ind. 103	56
1893	Hobbs v. State†	133 Ind. 404	53
1894	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Burton†	139 Ind. 357	49
1898	Pomeroy v. Beach· Dissent†	149 Ind. 511	48
1895	Teegarden v. Lewis†	145 Ind. 98	48
1894	Dantzer v. Indianapolis Union Railway Co.†	141 Ind. 604	46
1893	Ames v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.†	135 Ind. 363	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 379 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 Leonard J. Hackney on?: Leonard J. Hackney 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).