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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1973

Oscar R. Knutson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Oscar R. Knutson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1981
Tenure: 1948–1973 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Knutson authored 1,577 published opinions for the court (1948–1975), plus 40 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Bobich v. Oja (173 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. 154 of these were attributed to Knutson 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
1960	Bobich v. Oja	258 Minn. 287	173
1966	State v. Thompson	139 N.W.2d 490	149
1972	Klein v. First Edina National Bank	196 N.W.2d 619	133
1969	Hunt v. Nevada State Bank	172 N.W.2d 292	128
1960	Schwartz v. Minneapolis Suburban Bus Co.	258 Minn. 325	120
1973	Van Tassel v. Horace Mann Insurance Company	207 N.W.2d 348	97
1971	Schoepke v. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co.	187 N.W.2d 133	97
1970	Farr v. Armstrong Rubber Company	179 N.W.2d 64	94
1973	Caspersen v. Webber	213 N.W.2d 327	91
1959	Beck v. Spindler	256 Minn. 543	91
1971	Wallace v. Commissioner of Taxation	184 N.W.2d 588	90
1966	Morrison v. Swenson	142 N.W.2d 640	90
1953	Tomlyanovich v. Tomlyanovich	239 Minn. 250	87
1953	Aronovitch v. Levy†	238 Minn. 237	87
1972	Atcas v. Credit Clearing Corporation of America	197 N.W.2d 448	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,643 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Oscar R. Knutson on?: Oscar R. Knutson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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