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 1949 / Served to 1953

Paul G. Jasper

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Paul G. Jasper was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–2001
Tenure: 1949–1953 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jasper authored 84 published opinions for the court (1949–1953), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Ballman v. Duffecy (91 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. 20 of these were attributed to Jasper 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	Ballman v. Duffecy	102 N.E.2d 646	91
1950	Watts v. State	95 N.E.2d 570	89
1952	Ennis v. State Highway Commission	108 N.E.2d 687	54
1951	Brown v. Grzeskowiak· Dissent†	101 N.E.2d 639	47
1952	State v. Lindsey	106 N.E.2d 230	46
1950	Stice v. State	89 N.E.2d 915	46
1949	State Ex Rel. Ferger v. Circuit Court	84 N.E.2d 585	44
1951	Wahl v. State	98 N.E.2d 671	37
1951	Carter v. State	96 N.E.2d 273	36
1951	Lutz v. New Albany City Plan Commission	101 N.E.2d 187	34
1950	Petillo v. State	89 N.E.2d 623	33
1952	State Ex Rel. Stanton v. Murray· Concurrence†	108 N.E.2d 251	31
1952	Goldstine v. State	103 N.E.2d 438	29
1950	Wabash Valley Coach Co. v. Arrow Coach Lines, Inc.†	228 Ind. 609	29
1949	Rohlfing v. State	88 N.E.2d 148	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 87 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 Paul G. Jasper on?: Paul G. Jasper was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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4 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).