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 1831 / Served to 1837

Stephen C. Stevens

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Stephen C. Stevens was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1831. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1831–1837 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1831	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stevens authored 71 published opinions for the court (1831–1835). Most cited: Johnston v. Glancy (38 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. 71 of these were attributed to Stevens 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
1835	Johnston v. Glancy†	4 Blackf. 94	38
1831	O'Brien v. Coulter†	2 Blackf. 421	36
1831	Modisett v. Johnson†	2 Blackf. 431	31
1835	Raymond v. Simonson†	4 Blackf. 77	30
1831	Tolen v. Tolen†	2 Blackf. 407	18
1833	Turpin v. Remy†	3 Blackf. 210	17
1833	Adams v. Lisher†	3 Blackf. 241	16
1831	Jones v. State†	2 Blackf. 475	16
1835	Bank of United States v. Burke†	4 Blackf. 141	13
1833	Cox v. State†	3 Blackf. 193	13
1834	Poulk v. Slocum†	3 Blackf. 421	12
1835	Wibright v. Wise†	4 Blackf. 137	11
1834	Allen v. Wheatley†	3 Blackf. 332	11
1833	Hays v. Lanier†	3 Blackf. 322	11
1831	Pugh v. Bussel†	2 Blackf. 394	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 Stephen C. Stevens on?: Stephen C. Stevens was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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6 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).