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 1893 / Served to 1899

Timothy Howard

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Timothy Howard was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1893. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1837–1916
Tenure: 1893–1899 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1893	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Howard authored 347 published opinions for the court (1893–1898), plus 11 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Miller v. State (86 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. 365 of these were attributed to Howard 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	Miller v. State· Dissent†	149 Ind. 607	86
1896	Denney v. State ex rel. Basler†	144 Ind. 503	82
1898	State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Holliday· Dissent†	150 Ind. 216	77
1893	Dickson v. Waldron†	135 Ind. 507	72
1893	Richwine v. Presbyterian Church†	135 Ind. 80	60
1893	Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad v. Spilker†	134 Ind. 380	57
1893	Smith v. Pedigo· Dissent†	145 Ind. 361	56
1897	Coy v. Indianapolis Gas Co.†	146 Ind. 655	55
1895	Teegarden v. Lewis· Dissent†	145 Ind. 98	48
1894	Dantzer v. Indianapolis Union Railway Co.· Concurrence†	141 Ind. 604	46
1893	Evansville & Richmond Railroad v. Maddux†	134 Ind. 571	46
1895	Columbian Athletic Club v. State ex rel. McMahan†	143 Ind. 98	45
1894	Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. McIntosh†	140 Ind. 261	45
1897	Crum v. State†	148 Ind. 401	44
1895	Needham v. Wright†	140 Ind. 190	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 365 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 Timothy Howard on?: Timothy Howard was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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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).