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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1929 / Served to 1954

Oscar M. Fritz

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Oscar M. Fritz was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1929. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1957
Tenure: 1929–1954 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1929	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Fritz authored 864 published opinions for the court (1929–1953), plus 24 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Boynton Cab Co. v. Neubeck (380 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. 476 of these were attributed to Fritz 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
1941	Boynton Cab Co. v. Neubeck	296 N.W. 636	380
1934	Walker v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co.†	214 Wis. 519	117
1938	State ex rel. Wisconsin Development Authority v. Dammann†	228 Wis. 147	93
1941	School District No. 3 of Adams v. Callahan	297 N.W. 407	78
1930	Trautmann v. Charles Schefft & Sons Co.†	201 Wis. 113	67
1935	State ex rel. Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. Henry†	218 Wis. 302	66
1951	Colton v. Foulkes	259 Wis. 142	56
1937	Weco Products Co. v. Reed Drug Co.†	225 Wis. 474	56
1934	Pollack v. State· Dissent†	215 Wis. 200	54
1932	Drewek v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance†	207 Wis. 445	50
1953	State v. Stehlek	262 Wis. 642	49
1952	Guse v. A. O. Smith Corp.	260 Wis. 403	49
1937	Fox v. City of Racine†	225 Wis. 542	48
1932	Necedah Manufacturing Corp. v. Juneau County†	206 Wis. 316	46
1933	Creamery Package Manufacturing Co. v. Industrial Commission†	211 Wis. 326	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 895 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 Oscar M. Fritz on?: Oscar M. Fritz was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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25 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).