How do judges of the Supreme Court of Mississippi reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1897 / Served to 1903

Samuel Heidelberg Terral

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Samuel Heidelberg Terral was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1897. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1835–1903
Tenure: 1897–1903 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1897	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi

Judicial Record

In our data, Terral authored 224 published opinions for the court (1897–1903), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: State v. Holder (60 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. 226 of these were attributed to Terral 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
1898	State v. Holder· Dissent†	76 Miss. 158	60
1902	Raines v. State†	81 Miss. 489	33
1902	Warren County v. Gans†	80 Miss. 76	24
1900	Gibbs v. McIntosh†	78 Miss. 648	21
1897	Ex parte Devine†	74 Miss. 715	17
1902	Learned v. Ogden†	80 Miss. 769	16
1901	Illinois Central Railroad v. Arnola†	78 Miss. 787	16
1901	Guarantee Co. of North America v. Pitts†	78 Miss. 837	15
1900	McCarlie v. Atkinson†	77 Miss. 594	15
1898	Georgia Pacific Railway Co. v. Baird†	76 Miss. 521	15
1902	Simmons v. Hutchinson†	81 Miss. 351	14
1902	Fox v. Pearl River Lumber Co.†	80 Miss. 1	14
1901	Goyer Co. v. Jones†	79 Miss. 253	14
1901	Stillwell, Bierce & Smith Vaile Co. v. Biloxi Canning Co.†	78 Miss. 779	14
1900	Whitley v. State†	78 Miss. 255	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 227 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 Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Samuel Heidelberg Terral on?: Samuel Heidelberg Terral was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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