How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota / Joined 1983 / Served to 1987

Peter S. Popovich

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Peter S. Popovich was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1987 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Popovich authored 505 published opinions for the court (1983–1987), plus 45 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Van De Loo v. Van De Loo (81 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. 338 of these were attributed to Popovich 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
1984	Van De Loo v. Van De Loo	346 N.W.2d 173	81
1985	State v. Van Ruler	378 N.W.2d 77	73
1983	Group Health Plan, Inc. v. Lopez	341 N.W.2d 294	46
1983	Peoples Natural Gas Co. v. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission	342 N.W.2d 348	40
1987	Bohdan v. Alltool Mfg., Co.	411 N.W.2d 902	38
1984	State v. Jannetta	355 N.W.2d 189	33
1984	Smith v. American Indian Chemical Dependency Diversion Project†	343 N.W.2d 43	32
1984	Beaty v. Minnesota Board of Teaching†	354 N.W.2d 466	30
1984	Schmidt v. Independent School District No. 1, Aitkin†	349 N.W.2d 563	30
1984	Marriage of Halper v. Halper	348 N.W.2d 360	26
1986	Edwards v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	399 N.W.2d 95	24
1986	Marriage of Blomgren v. Blomgren· Concurrence†	386 N.W.2d 378	23
1986	Production Credit Ass'n of Worthington v. Van Iperen†	396 N.W.2d 35	22
1984	Hamilton v. Independent School District No. 114	355 N.W.2d 182	22
1985	In Re the Implementation of Utility Energy Conservation Improvement Programs†	368 N.W.2d 308	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 560 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 Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Peter S. Popovich on?: Peter S. Popovich was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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