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Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1994

Rosalie E. Wahl

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Rosalie E. Wahl was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2013
Tenure: 1977–1994 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
William Mitchell College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Wahl authored 419 published opinions for the court (1977–1994), plus 176 dissents and 56 concurrences. Most cited: Fabio v. Bellomo (547 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. 274 of these were attributed to Wahl 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	Fabio v. Bellomo· Dissent†	504 N.W.2d 758	547
1988	Offerdahl v. University of Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics· Concurrence†	426 N.W.2d 425	379
1984	Marriage of Rutten v. Rutten	347 N.W.2d 47	239
1985	Marriage of Pikula v. Pikula	374 N.W.2d 705	224
1980	State v. MacK†	292 N.W.2d 764	207
1983	Schmidt v. Clothier	338 N.W.2d 256	204
1980	State v. Wahlberg	296 N.W.2d 408	202
1985	Atwater Creamery Co. v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co.	366 N.W.2d 271	194
1986	Sigurdson v. Isanti County	386 N.W.2d 715	187
1987	State v. Joon Kyu Kim	398 N.W.2d 544	179
1994	State v. Scales	518 N.W.2d 587	174
1982	Grondahl v. Bulluck	318 N.W.2d 240	160
1986	Florenzano v. Olson	387 N.W.2d 168	154
1978	Iowa Kemper Insurance Co. v. Stone	269 N.W.2d 885	153
1984	Bilotta v. Kelley Co., Inc.	346 N.W.2d 616	149

Showing the 15 most-cited of 651 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Rosalie E. Wahl on?: Rosalie E. Wahl was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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