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 1865 / Served to 1871

Robert C. Gregory

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Robert C. Gregory was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1865. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1865–1871 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1865	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gregory authored 350 published opinions for the court (1865–1871), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: New England Fire & Marine Insurance v. Robinson (42 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. 360 of these were attributed to Gregory 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
1865	New England Fire & Marine Insurance v. Robinson†	25 Ind. 536	42
1868	Davis v. Calloway†	30 Ind. 112	37
1865	Jenkins v. Parkhill†	25 Ind. 473	33
1868	Malady v. McEnary†	30 Ind. 273	31
1866	Siceloff v. Redman's Administrator· Concurrence†	26 Ind. 251	30
1865	Stewart v. State†	24 Ind. 142	30
1867	Greencastle Southern Turnpike Co. v. State ex rel. Malot†	28 Ind. 382	29
1871	Loeb v. Mathis†	37 Ind. 306	28
1865	Lower v. Wallick†	25 Ind. 68	28
1865	Rockhill v. Nelson†	24 Ind. 422	28
1869	McCowan v. Whitesides†	31 Ind. 235	27
1868	Rogers v. Place†	29 Ind. 577	26
1865	Barnes v. Allen†	25 Ind. 222	26
1865	Smith v. Jeffries†	25 Ind. 376	26
1869	Lindley v. Cross†	31 Ind. 106	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 360 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 Robert C. Gregory on?: Robert C. Gregory was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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5 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).