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

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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1978

Paul W. White

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Paul W. White was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–2002
Tenure: 1962–1978 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 2,433 published opinions for the court (1963–1976), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. Alvarez (186 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. 105 of these were attributed to White 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
1972	State v. Alvarez	202 N.W.2d 604	186
1968	Marx v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company	157 N.W.2d 870	177
1973	Hawkins Construction Co. v. Matthews Co., Inc.	209 N.W.2d 643	109
1968	Stephens v. Allied Mutual Insurance Company	156 N.W.2d 133	107
1969	Krause v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	169 N.W.2d 601	90
1968	Brown v. City of Omaha	160 N.W.2d 805	89
1964	Metcalf v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company	126 N.W.2d 471	88
1966	National Union F. Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. v. Bruecks	139 N.W.2d 821	85
1968	DeBacker v. Brainard	161 N.W.2d 508	84
1967	Anderson v. Tiemann	155 N.W.2d 322	82
1972	Martin v. Martin	197 N.W.2d 388	78
1974	State v. Harig	218 N.W.2d 884	71
1968	Sullivan v. City of Omaha	162 N.W.2d 227	71
1973	Wiseman v. Sullivan	211 N.W.2d 906	70
1965	ALUMNI CONTROL BD., ALPHA PSI CHAP. v. City of Lincoln	137 N.W.2d 800	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,434 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Paul W. White on?: Paul W. White was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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