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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1982 / Served to 1993

Louis J. Ceci

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Louis J. Ceci was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1982–1993 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Marquette University
Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ceci authored 143 published opinions for the court (1982–1993), plus 40 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Green Spring Farms v. Kersten (901 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. 69 of these were attributed to Ceci 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
1987	Green Spring Farms v. Kersten	401 N.W.2d 816	901
1990	State v. Poellinger	451 N.W.2d 752	538
1986	State v. Bangert	389 N.W.2d 12	406
1988	Schuster v. Altenberg	424 N.W.2d 159	134
1984	Standard Theatres, Inc. v. State, Department of Transportation	349 N.W.2d 661	119
1987	State v. Turner	401 N.W.2d 827	118
1988	State v. Tompkins· Concurrence†	423 N.W.2d 823	114
1988	C.L. v. Olson	422 N.W.2d 614	112
1984	Theama v. City of Kenosha	344 N.W.2d 513	112
1985	Helmbrecht v. St. Paul Insurance	362 N.W.2d 118	110
1984	State v. Dunn	359 N.W.2d 151	103
1986	State v. Smith	388 N.W.2d 601	101
1985	State v. Fishnick	378 N.W.2d 272	98
1984	Sumnicht v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.	360 N.W.2d 2	98
1987	State v. Clappes	401 N.W.2d 759	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 205 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 Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Louis J. Ceci on?: Louis J. Ceci was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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