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 1920 / Served to 1927

Louis B. Ewbank

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Louis B. Ewbank was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1920. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1864–1953
Tenure: 1920–1927 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1920	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ewbank authored 381 published opinions for the court (1920–1926), plus 9 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Terre Haute v. Phillips (49 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. 210 of these were attributed to Ewbank 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
1921	Terre Haute v. Phillips†	191 Ind. 374	49
1925	Castro v. State	147 N.E. 321	36
1922	Cole v. State†	192 Ind. 29	32
1921	Davis Construction Co. v. Board of Commissioners†	192 Ind. 144	30
1925	Haverstick v. State	147 N.E. 625	29
1921	Royal Insurance v. Stewart†	190 Ind. 444	29
1924	Jackson v. State ex rel. South Bend Motor Bus Co.· Dissent†	194 Ind. 248	28
1921	Hessler v. Federal Casualty Co.†	190 Ind. 68	27
1921	Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Parker†	191 Ind. 686	24
1925	Lowery v. State	147 N.E. 151	23
1923	Yarlott v. Brown†	192 Ind. 648	23
1925	Thomas v. State	146 N.E. 850	22
1924	Borolos v. State†	194 Ind. 469	22
1924	Carr v. State†	194 Ind. 162	22
1923	Powell v. State· Dissent†	193 Ind. 258	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 393 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 Louis B. Ewbank on?: Louis B. Ewbank was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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7 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).