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Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1980

Walter F. Rogosheske

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Walter F. Rogosheske was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1998
Tenure: 1962–1980 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Valparaiso University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rogosheske authored 392 published opinions for the court (1962–1982), plus 44 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Johnson (146 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. 129 of these were attributed to Rogosheske 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
1966	State v. Johnson	141 N.W.2d 517	146
1979	State v. Brouillette· Dissent†	286 N.W.2d 702	133
1962	Cederstrand v. Lutheran Brotherhood	263 Minn. 520	133
1975	State v. Leinweber	228 N.W.2d 120	128
1967	McCormack v. Hankscraft Company	154 N.W.2d 488	126
1977	Sherlock v. Stillwater Clinic	260 N.W.2d 169	110
1970	Christy v. Saliterman· Dissent†	179 N.W.2d 288	110
1963	Northern States Power Co. v. Franklin	265 Minn. 391	109
1977	Tolbert v. Gerber Industries, Inc.· Dissent†	255 N.W.2d 362	106
1966	Balts v. Balts· Concurrence†	142 N.W.2d 66	105
1977	State v. Goulette	258 N.W.2d 758	104
1975	Midway Center Associates v. Midway Center, Inc.	237 N.W.2d 76	104
1980	Anderson Ex Rel. Anderson v. Stream· Dissent†	295 N.W.2d 595	100
1963	Layne-Minnesota Co. v. Regents of the University of Minnesota	266 Minn. 284	99
1977	Bogen v. Bogen	261 N.W.2d 606	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 472 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 Walter F. Rogosheske on?: Walter F. Rogosheske was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

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18 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).