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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1945 / Served to 1960

Leroy E. Matson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Leroy E. Matson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1960
Tenure: 1945–1960 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Matson authored 377 published opinions for the court (1945–1960), plus 22 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Hauenstein v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co. (173 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. 66 of these were attributed to Matson 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
1954	Hauenstein v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co.	242 Minn. 354	173
1950	State v. DeZeler	230 Minn. 39	123
1949	Breimhorst v. Beckman	35 N.W.2d 719	120
1952	Hinz v. Northland Milk & Ice Cream Co.	237 Minn. 28	102
1950	Lee v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.†	230 Minn. 315	97
1955	Sauter Ex Rel. Benson v. Sauter	244 Minn. 482	95
1947	Hoppe v. Klapperich	28 N.W.2d 780	95
1958	Woodrich Construction Co. v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America	252 Minn. 86	93
1949	Lee v. Delmont	36 N.W.2d 530	83
1950	Chapman v. Dorsey†	230 Minn. 279	74
1956	Boutang v. Twin City Motor Bus Co.	248 Minn. 240	72
1959	Connolly v. Nicollet Hotel· Dissent†	254 Minn. 373	67
1946	Knox v. Knox	25 N.W.2d 225	66
1958	McCourtie v. United States Steel Corp.· Concurrence†	253 Minn. 501	65
1955	Hallada v. Great Northern Railway	244 Minn. 81	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 407 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Leroy E. Matson on?: Leroy E. Matson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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