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

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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1905 / Served to 1911

Oscar H. Montgomery

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Oscar H. Montgomery was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1905. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1859–1936
Tenure: 1905–1911 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1905	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Hanover College

Judicial Record

In our data, Montgomery authored 217 published opinions for the court (1905–1910), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Glens Falls Insurance Co. v. Michael (68 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. 223 of these were attributed to Montgomery 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
1905	Glens Falls Insurance Co. v. Michael	167 Ind. 659	68
1907	Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hadley†	170 Ind. 204	64
1905	Haughton v. Aetna Life Insurance†	165 Ind. 32	63
1909	Inland Steel Co. v. Yedinak†	172 Ind. 423	58
1910	William Laurie Co. v. McCullough†	174 Ind. 477	46
1905	Hudelson v. Hudelson†	164 Ind. 694	46
1909	Potter Manufacturing Co. v. A. B. Meyer & Co.†	171 Ind. 513	45
1908	Rooker v. Bruce†	171 Ind. 86	45
1906	State v. Richcreek†	167 Ind. 217	45
1910	Heath v. State†	173 Ind. 296	44
1909	Evansville & Terre Haute Railway Co. v. Berndt†	172 Ind. 697	44
1905	Westfall v. Wait†	165 Ind. 353	43
1905	Zimmerman v. Zehendner†	164 Ind. 466	40
1907	Schmidt v. City of Indianapolis†	168 Ind. 631	38
1906	Taylor v. Strayer†	167 Ind. 23	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 224 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 Oscar H. Montgomery on?: Oscar H. Montgomery was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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5 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).