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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1956

Walter L. Tooze

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Walter L. Tooze was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1956
Tenure: 1950–1956 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tooze authored 194 published opinions for the court (1950–1957), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Conzelmann v. Northwest Poultry & Dairy Products Co. (118 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. 164 of these were attributed to Tooze 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
1950	Conzelmann v. Northwest Poultry & Dairy Products Co.†	225 P.2d 757	118
1953	State Ex Rel. Ricco v. Biggs†	255 P.2d 1055	93
1952	Huffman v. Alexander· Concurrence†	253 P.2d 289	82
1952	Denton v. Arnstein†	250 P.2d 407	79
1952	ELDRIDGE v. Johnston†	245 P.2d 239	75
1954	State Ex Rel. Gladden v. Lonergan	269 P.2d 491	65
1954	I-L Logging Co. v. Manufacturers & Wholesalers Indemnity Exchange· Separate†	275 P.2d 226	63
1951	Musgrave Et Ux. v. Lucas Et Ux.†	238 P.2d 780	63
1952	Feldman Et Ux. v. Knapp Et Ux.†	250 P.2d 92	61
1956	State of Oregon v. Dewey· Dissent†	206 Or. 496	54
1952	Tomasek v. Oregon State Highway Commission†	248 P.2d 703	54
1955	State Highway Commission v. Superbilt Manufacturing Co.†	281 P.2d 707	53
1951	Walker v. Penner†	227 P.2d 316	52
1955	Tuite v. UNION PACIFIC STAGES†	284 P.2d 333	51
1954	State of Oregon v. Kuhnhausen	272 P.2d 225	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 213 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 Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Walter L. Tooze on?: Walter L. Tooze was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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