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 1890 / Served to 1893

Robert W. McBride

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Robert W. McBride was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1890. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1842–1926
Tenure: 1890–1893 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1890	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McBride authored 134 published opinions for the court (1890–1892), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Perkins v. Hayward (88 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. 138 of these were attributed to McBride 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
1892	Perkins v. Hayward†	132 Ind. 95	88
1891	First National Bank v. Sarlls†	129 Ind. 201	67
1892	Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Creek†	130 Ind. 139	63
1891	Shoner v. Pennsylvania Co.†	130 Ind. 170	59
1891	City of Crawfordsville v. Braden†	130 Ind. 149	54
1891	City of Rushville v. Rushville Natural Gas Co.†	132 Ind. 575	46
1892	Chicago & Atlantic Railway Co. v. Sutton†	130 Ind. 405	39
1892	Markover v. Krauss†	132 Ind. 294	37
1891	State ex rel. Egan v. Wolever†	127 Ind. 306	37
1891	Messick v. Midland Railway Co.†	128 Ind. 81	36
1891	Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway Co. v. Hunter†	128 Ind. 213	35
1891	Robertson v. Van Cleave· Separate†	129 Ind. 217	33
1892	Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated Railway Co. v. Hanning†	131 Ind. 528	31
1891	Fankboner v. Corder†	127 Ind. 164	31
1892	Stewart v. Pennsylvania Co.†	130 Ind. 242	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 139 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 W. McBride on?: Robert W. McBride was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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2 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).