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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1963 / Served to 1967

Walter Myers Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Walter Myers Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1967
Tenure: 1963–1967 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Myers authored 218 published opinions for the court (1924–1967), plus 9 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Montgomery v. Crum (92 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. 35 of these were attributed to Myers 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
1928	Montgomery v. Crum	161 N.E. 251	92
1963	Tait v. State	188 N.E.2d 537	81
1963	Ritchie v. State· Concurrence†	189 N.E.2d 575	73
1930	In Re Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co.	171 N.E. 65	65
1965	Greenwalt v. State	209 N.E.2d 254	53
1933	Sylvester v. State	187 N.E. 669	48
1965	Cotton v. State	211 N.E.2d 158	47
1964	State Farm Life Ins. Co. v. SPIDEL ET UX.· Dissent†	202 N.E.2d 886	46
1965	Gayer v. State	210 N.E.2d 852	42
1931	In Re Petitions to Transfer Appeals From Appellate Court to Supreme Court· Concurrence	174 N.E. 812	42
1927	Rhodes v. State	156 N.E. 389	40
1963	Epps v. State	192 N.E.2d 459	39
1966	Wilson v. State· Concurrence†	217 N.E.2d 147	38
1924	Irwin's Bank v. Fletcher, Etc., Trust Co., Rec.	145 N.E. 869	35
1925	Burrell v. Jean	146 N.E. 754	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 238 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 Walter Myers Jr. on?: Walter Myers Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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4 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).