How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota / Joined 1989 / Served to 2012

Roger M. Klaphake

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Roger M. Klaphake was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2012 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Klaphake authored 376 published opinions for the court (1990–2012), plus 13 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Yunker v. Honeywell, Inc. (51 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. 93 of these were attributed to Klaphake 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
1993	Yunker v. Honeywell, Inc.	496 N.W.2d 419	51
1995	State v. Crims· Concurrence†	540 N.W.2d 860	48
2008	State v. Word	755 N.W.2d 776	35
2003	Danielson v. National Supply Co.	670 N.W.2d 1	35
2003	Citizens for a Balanced City v. Plymouth Congregational Church	672 N.W.2d 13	32
2003	In Re the Welfare of D.L.R.D.	656 N.W.2d 247	32
2005	Drewitz v. Motorwerks, Inc.· Concurrence†	706 N.W.2d 773	31
1993	Musicland Group, Inc. v. Ceridian Corp.	508 N.W.2d 524	30
2010	Hagen v. Schirmers	783 N.W.2d 212	29
2001	Marriage of Haefele v. Haefele	621 N.W.2d 758	29
1997	Cherne Contracting Corp. v. Wausau Insurance Companies	572 N.W.2d 339	28
2003	Alliance for Metropolitan Stability v. Metropolitan Council	671 N.W.2d 905	27
2000	State v. Cook	610 N.W.2d 664	25
1998	Marriage of Holmberg v. Holmberg†	578 N.W.2d 817	25
2005	Black v. Rimmer	700 N.W.2d 521	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 399 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 Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Roger M. Klaphake on?: Roger M. Klaphake was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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