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

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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1858 / Served to 1882

Lorenzo Worden

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Lorenzo Worden was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1858. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1819–1884
Tenure: 1858–1882 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1858	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Worden authored 1,330 published opinions for the court (1858–1882), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Ohio & Mississippi R. W. Co. v. Collarn (109 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. 1,341 of these were attributed to Worden 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
1881	Ohio & Mississippi R. W. Co. v. Collarn†	73 Ind. 261	109
1878	Steeple v. Downing†	60 Ind. 478	75
1876	Stanley v. Sutherland†	54 Ind. 339	63
1862	Bosseker v. Cramer†	18 Ind. 44	63
1871	Jeffersonville Railroad v. Rogers†	38 Ind. 116	53
1872	May v. Fletcher†	40 Ind. 575	52
1861	Snelson v. State ex rel. Board of Commissioners†	16 Ind. 29	52
1878	House v. Board of Comm'rs of Montgomery Co.†	60 Ind. 580	51
1873	Colter v. Frese†	45 Ind. 96	50
1876	Alford v. Baker†	53 Ind. 279	49
1880	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad v. Noel· Separate†	77 Ind. 110	46
1861	Brandon v. State†	16 Ind. 197	46
1860	State v. Bowers†	14 Ind. 195	45
1873	Campbell v. Routt†	42 Ind. 410	44
1874	Grove v. City of Fort Wayne†	45 Ind. 429	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,346 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 Lorenzo Worden on?: Lorenzo Worden was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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24 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).