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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1989 / Served to 1998

Peter M. Keith

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Peter M. Keith was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1989–1998 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Amherst College
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Keith authored 230 published opinions for the court (1989–1998), plus 23 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Webb (349 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 Keith 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
1989	State v. Webb	440 N.W.2d 426	349
1989	State v. Moore	438 N.W.2d 101	305
1996	Roby v. State	547 N.W.2d 354	235
1989	Hubred v. Control Data Corp.	442 N.W.2d 308	213
1994	State v. Ecker	524 N.W.2d 712	188
1991	Rico v. State	472 N.W.2d 100	168
1990	Wirig v. Kinney Shoe Corp.	461 N.W.2d 374	134
1995	In Re Hennepin County 1986 Recycling Bond Litigation· Dissent†	540 N.W.2d 494	127
1993	In Re the Welfare of E.D.J.	502 N.W.2d 779	126
1990	Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.	457 N.W.2d 175	114
1992	State v. Dickerson· Dissent†	481 N.W.2d 840	111
1990	Hydra-Mac, Inc. v. Onan Corp.· Concurrence†	450 N.W.2d 913	109
1990	Chergosky v. Crosstown Bell, Inc.	463 N.W.2d 522	104
1991	McDonnell v. Commissioner of Public Safety· Concurrence†	473 N.W.2d 848	103
1996	O'MALLEY v. Ulland Bros.· Dissent†	549 N.W.2d 889	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 271 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 Peter M. Keith on?: Peter M. Keith was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).