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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1959 / Served to 1964

William H. Dieterich

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

William H. Dieterich was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1964
Tenure: 1959–1964 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University
Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dieterich authored 195 published opinions for the court (1959–1964), plus 18 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Esser (85 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. 62 of these were attributed to Dieterich 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
1962	State v. Esser· Concurrence†	16 Wis. 2d 567	85
1962	Holt v. State· Dissent†	17 Wis. 2d 468	74
1963	Pabst v. Department of Taxation· Concurrence†	19 Wis. 2d 313	68
1963	Stefan Auto Body v. State Highway Commission· Dissent†	21 Wis. 2d 363	46
1960	State v. Damms· Dissent†	9 Wis. 2d 183	38
1961	Gregory v. Anderson· Dissent†	14 Wis. 2d 130	35
1964	Town of Mt. Pleasant v. City of Racine†	24 Wis. 2d 41	33
1962	Sell v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance	17 Wis. 2d 510	31
1964	Kopacka v. State	22 Wis. 2d 457	30
1964	Jezo v. Jezo	23 Wis. 2d 399	28
1963	Tell v. Wolke· Dissent†	21 Wis. 2d 613	28
1962	State Ex Rel. McCormack v. Foley	18 Wis. 2d 274	28
1962	Dehnart v. Waukesha Brewing Co.	17 Wis. 2d 44	26
1960	White House Milk Co. v. Reynolds	12 Wis. 2d 143	25
1959	State Ex Rel. Milwaukee County v. Boos	8 Wis. 2d 215	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 215 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 Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was William H. Dieterich on?: William H. Dieterich was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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