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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1943 / Served to 1949

Martin J. O'Malley

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Martin J. O'Malley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1972
Tenure: 1943–1949 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

St Thomas University
Valparaiso University

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Malley authored 79 published opinions for the court (1943–1948), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Automobile Underwriters, Inc. v. Rich (55 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. 82 of these were attributed to O'Malley 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
1944	Automobile Underwriters, Inc. v. Rich†	53 N.E.2d 775	55
1947	McCague v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad†	71 N.E.2d 569	50
1946	Allman v. Malsbury†	65 N.E.2d 106	49
1948	State Ex Rel. Black v. Burch· Concurrence†	80 N.E.2d 294	48
1945	Boston v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.†	61 N.E.2d 326	44
1948	Hayes Freight Lines, Inc. v. Wilson†	77 N.E.2d 580	41
1945	Rowe v. Johnson†	60 N.E.2d 529	38
1948	Kelley v. State†	78 N.E.2d 547	36
1948	White v. State†	79 N.E.2d 771	35
1944	Kist v. Coughlin†	57 N.E.2d 199	32
1945	State Ex Rel. Emmert v. Gentry†	62 N.E.2d 860	28
1943	Riechmann v. Reasner†	51 N.E.2d 10	27
1947	Public Service Commission v. Indianapolis Railways, Inc.†	76 N.E.2d 841	25
1943	Snider v. Truex†	51 N.E.2d 477	24
1948	E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Co. v. Lilly†	79 N.E.2d 387	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 82 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 Martin J. O'Malley on?: Martin J. O'Malley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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6 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).