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

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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1913 / Served to 1917

Richard K. Erwin

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Richard K. Erwin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1913. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1860–1917
Tenure: 1913–1917 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1913	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Erwin authored 139 published opinions for the court (1913–1917), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Kahn v. State (38 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. 140 of these were attributed to Erwin 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
1914	Kahn v. State†	182 Ind. 1	38
1914	Boland v. Claudel†	181 Ind. 295	30
1915	Jackson Hill Coal & Coke Co. v. Bales†	183 Ind. 276	29
1913	Craven v. Craven†	181 Ind. 553	29
1913	Booth v. State†	179 Ind. 405	24
1916	Public Utilities Co. v. Handorf†	185 Ind. 254	23
1916	Bottorff v. South Construction Co.†	184 Ind. 221	23
1915	Rock v. State†	185 Ind. 51	21
1914	Wabash Railroad v. McDoniels†	183 Ind. 104	20
1914	Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Simpson†	182 Ind. 693	20
1917	Stalker v. Breeze†	186 Ind. 221	19
1916	Kilgore v. Gannon†	185 Ind. 682	19
1915	Brown v. State†	184 Ind. 254	19
1916	Caldwell v. Ulsh†	184 Ind. 725	18
1916	Indiana Board of Pharmacy v. Haag†	184 Ind. 333	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 140 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 Supreme Court of Indiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Richard K. Erwin on?: Richard K. Erwin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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