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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1944 / Served to 1956

Neil E. Reid

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Neil E. Reid was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1956
Tenure: 1944–1956 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reid authored 396 published opinions for the court (1944–1956), plus 25 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Podolski (64 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. 53 of these were attributed to Reid 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
1952	People v. Podolski	52 N.W.2d 201	64
1949	Francis v. Scheper†	326 Mich. 441	55
1952	McCreary v. Shields	52 N.W.2d 853	53
1944	In Re Olney's Estate· Dissent	14 N.W.2d 574	50
1954	Michigan Hospital Service v. Sharpe	63 N.W.2d 638	48
1952	People v. Piasecki	52 N.W.2d 626	46
1949	Sullivan v. Ulrich· Dissent†	326 Mich. 218	39
1951	In Re Slum Clearance Between Hastings, Gratiot, De Quindre and Mullett Streets	50 N.W.2d 340	37
1954	Greenlees v. Owen Ames Kimball Co.	66 N.W.2d 227	36
1945	W. H. Knapp Co. v. State Highway Department	18 N.W.2d 421	36
1954	Judis v. Borg-Warner Corporation	63 N.W.2d 647	35
1944	City of Detroit v. A. W. Kutsche & Co.	16 N.W.2d 128	34
1948	Krajenke Buick Sales v. Hamtramck City Engineer	33 N.W.2d 781	30
1947	Hooper v. State Mutual Life Assurance Co.	28 N.W.2d 331	29
1950	Simpson v. Burton	44 N.W.2d 178	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 422 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 Michigan Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Neil E. Reid on?: Neil E. Reid was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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