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 1949 / Served to 1961

Peter E. Boslaugh

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Peter E. Boslaugh was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1881–1964
Tenure: 1949–1961 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boslaugh authored 69 published opinions for the court (1949–1961), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. State Railway Commission v. Ramsey (83 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. 70 of these were attributed to Boslaugh 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
1949	State ex rel. State Railway Commission v. Ramsey†	151 Neb. 333	83
1949	Reyes v. State†	151 Neb. 636	68
1951	Fisher v. State†	47 N.W.2d 349	61
1953	Rehn v. Bingaman· Concurrence†	157 Neb. 467	54
1952	Elrod v. Heirs in the Estate of Gifford†	55 N.W.2d 673	45
1949	Johnson v. Otley†	151 Neb. 142	41
1951	Master Laboratories, Inc. v. Chesnut†	154 Neb. 749	40
1949	McKain v. Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation District†	151 Neb. 497	38
1952	Johnson v. Richards†	155 Neb. 552	37
1949	Armer ex rel. Armer v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.†	151 Neb. 431	35
1956	Clutter v. Merrick†	162 Neb. 825	29
1949	Little v. Loup River Public Power District†	150 Neb. 864	29
1951	Canada v. Transit Inc.†	47 N.W.2d 507	27
1954	Grant v. Williams†	62 N.W.2d 532	25
1953	Keim v. Downing†	59 N.W.2d 602	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 Peter E. Boslaugh on?: Peter E. Boslaugh was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).