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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

North Dakota Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1962

Peter O. Sathre

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Peter O. Sathre was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1986
Tenure: 1950–1962 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Sathre authored 110 published opinions for the court (1938–1962), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Stormon v. Weiss (60 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. 18 of these were attributed to Sathre 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
1954	Stormon v. Weiss· Dissent†	65 N.W.2d 475	60
1957	Vermillion v. Spotted Elk	85 N.W.2d 432	32
1957	Johnson v. Johnson· Dissent†	85 N.W.2d 211	24
1953	Soderfelt v. City of Drayton	59 N.W.2d 502	22
1951	Truscott v. Peterson	50 N.W.2d 245	22
1957	Nicola v. Meisner	84 N.W.2d 702	20
1954	Strom v. Giske	68 N.W.2d 838	19
1955	In Re Burris Estate	72 N.W.2d 884	18
1954	Petroleum Exchange Inc. v. Poynter	64 N.W.2d 718	16
1957	Goulet v. O'KEEFFE	83 N.W.2d 889	15
1951	Lander v. Hartson	47 N.W.2d 211	15
1962	Stetson v. Nelson	118 N.W.2d 685	14
1956	State v. Whiteman	79 N.W.2d 528	14
1958	Farmers Educational & Cooperative Union of America v. WDAY, Inc.	89 N.W.2d 102	13
1957	Dakota Transfer & Storage Co. v. Merchants National Bank & Trust Co.	86 N.W.2d 639	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 North Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Peter O. Sathre on?: Peter O. Sathre was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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