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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1961 / Served to 1967

Robert C. Brower

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

Robert C. Brower was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1987
Tenure: 1961–1967 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Brower authored 34 published opinions for the court (1961–1982), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Nebraska State Bar Ass'n v. Butterfield (62 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. 38 of these were attributed to Brower 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
1961	State Ex Rel. Nebraska State Bar Ass'n v. Butterfield· Concurrence†	111 N.W.2d 543	62
1962	Olson v. Union Fire Insurance Company· Dissent†	118 N.W.2d 318	52
1966	Myers v. Drozda· Dissent†	141 N.W.2d 852	34
1982	In Re Estate of Florey	325 N.W.2d 643	32
1964	Zuroski v. Estate of Strickland· Dissent†	126 N.W.2d 888	32
1963	Stanton v. Mattson· Concurrence†	123 N.W.2d 844	30
1962	Fairley v. Kemper†	174 Neb. 565	30
1965	Houghton v. Houghton†	137 N.W.2d 861	28
1965	Tober v. Hampton†	136 N.W.2d 194	28
1963	Lloyd v. Gutgsell· Concurrence†	124 N.W.2d 198	28
1966	State v. Knecht†	147 N.W.2d 167	19
1966	Banks v. State· Dissent†	147 N.W.2d 132	15
1966	State v. Buttner†	143 N.W.2d 907	15
1961	STATE SECURITIES COMPANY v. Svoboda†	110 N.W.2d 109	15
1963	Glass v. Nebraska State Bank· Concurrence†	122 N.W.2d 882	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 Robert C. Brower on?: Robert C. Brower was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).