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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1955 / Served to 1977

Norman F. Arterburn

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Norman F. Arterburn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1979
Tenure: 1955–1977 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Arterburn authored 671 published opinions for the court (1955–1977), plus 72 dissents and 35 concurrences. Most cited: Blackburn v. State (243 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. 236 of these were attributed to Arterburn 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
1973	Blackburn v. State	291 N.E.2d 686	243
1972	Campbell v. State	284 N.E.2d 733	179
1972	Lewis v. State· Concurrence†	288 N.E.2d 138	175
1956	Public Service Commission v. City of Indianapolis	131 N.E.2d 308	168
1971	Weaver v. American Oil Company	276 N.E.2d 144	166
1975	Magley v. State· Concurrence†	335 N.E.2d 811	140
1958	Kiefer v. State· Dissent†	153 N.E.2d 899	133
1956	Guy v. SCHULDT	138 N.E.2d 891	133
1976	Sidle v. Majors· Concurrence†	341 N.E.2d 763	126
1973	Lindsey v. State· Dissent†	295 N.E.2d 819	124
1964	J. I. Case Co. v. Sandefur	197 N.E.2d 519	122
1976	Barnes v. Mac Brown and Company, Inc.	342 N.E.2d 619	117
1974	Ballard v. State· Concurrence†	318 N.E.2d 798	109
1969	Asher v. State	244 N.E.2d 89	108
1972	Thompson v. State	290 N.E.2d 724	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 780 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 Norman F. Arterburn on?: Norman F. Arterburn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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22 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).