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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1971

William Corwin Stuart

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

William Corwin Stuart was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2010
Tenure: 1962–1971 · 9 yrs
Education: University of Iowa 1941

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Iowa

B.A.

1941

Judicial Record

In our data, Stuart authored 62 published opinions for the court (1963–1971), plus 26 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Schmitt v. Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc. (172 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. 98 of these were attributed to Stuart 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
1969	Schmitt v. Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc.· Dissent†	170 N.W.2d 632	172
1966	Iowa Power and Light Co. v. Abild Construction Co.†	144 N.W.2d 303	97
1967	GLARRATANO v. Weitz Company· Dissent†	147 N.W.2d 824	96
1971	Wardlow v. City of Keokuk· Dissent†	190 N.W.2d 439	72
1970	State v. Cullison· Dissent†	173 N.W.2d 533	66
1971	Ehlers v. Iowa Warehouse Company†	188 N.W.2d 368	64
1965	Cronk v. Iowa Power and Light Company· Dissent†	138 N.W.2d 843	52
1968	Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc.(Arwell Div.) v. Burnett†	160 N.W.2d 427	50
1968	State v. Everett†	157 N.W.2d 144	48
1969	State v. Wisniewski· Concurrence†	171 N.W.2d 882	47
1971	State v. King†	191 N.W.2d 650	46
1970	State v. Rankin†	181 N.W.2d 169	45
1966	State v. Daves†	144 N.W.2d 879	37
1965	Woodward v. Quigley†	133 N.W.2d 38	34
1970	Brammer v. Allied Mutual Insurance Company· Concurrence†	182 N.W.2d 169	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 98 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 Iowa Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William Corwin Stuart on?: William Corwin Stuart was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

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