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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1994

Leslie Boslaugh

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Leslie Boslaugh was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–2006
Tenure: 1962–1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boslaugh authored 1,044 published opinions for the court (1962–1994), plus 148 dissents and 49 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Alvarez (186 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. 613 of these were attributed to Boslaugh 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
1972	State v. Alvarez· Dissent†	202 N.W.2d 604	186
1987	Mendoza v. Omaha Meat Processors· Dissent†	408 N.W.2d 280	169
1985	Witherspoon v. Sides Const. Co., Inc.· Dissent†	362 N.W.2d 35	164
1977	Prendergast v. Nelson· Dissent†	256 N.W.2d 657	136
1993	Concerned Citizens of Kimball County, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Control	505 N.W.2d 654	132
1981	State v. Buchanan· Dissent†	312 N.W.2d 684	123
1991	State v. Groves†	477 N.W.2d 789	117
1984	Guggenmos v. Guggenmos	359 N.W.2d 87	105
1984	State v. Reeves· Concurrence†	344 N.W.2d 433	102
1993	State v. Williams· Concurrence†	503 N.W.2d 561	101
1991	Nebraska State Bar Foundation v. Lancaster County Board of Equalization· Dissent†	465 N.W.2d 111	101
1979	Grand Island School District 2 v. Celotex Corp.	279 N.W.2d 603	99
1992	UHING ON BEHALF OF JONES v. Uhing	488 N.W.2d 366	97
1984	De Los Santos v. Great Western Sugar Co.	348 N.W.2d 842	97
1989	Burns v. Veterans of Foreign Wars	438 N.W.2d 485	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,241 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Leslie Boslaugh on?: Leslie Boslaugh was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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