How do judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1877 / Served to 1889

William E. Niblack

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

William E. Niblack was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1877. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1822–1893
Tenure: 1877–1889 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1877	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Niblack authored 727 published opinions for the court (1877–1889), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Epps v. State (95 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. 737 of these were attributed to Niblack 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
1885	Epps v. State†	102 Ind. 539	95
1886	Stout v. Board of Commissioners†	107 Ind. 343	78
1888	Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway Co. v. Barnhart†	115 Ind. 399	74
1885	Anderson v. State†	104 Ind. 467	74
1885	City of Logansport v. Uhl†	99 Ind. 531	57
1886	Hockett v. State†	105 Ind. 250	50
1887	Cheadle v. State†	110 Ind. 301	49
1887	Robertson v. State ex rel. Smith· Concurrence†	109 Ind. 79	49
1880	State v. Swift· Dissent†	69 Ind. 505	49
1885	Block v. State†	100 Ind. 357	47
1883	Stout v. State†	90 Ind. 1	44
1878	Pennsylvania Co. v. Sinclair†	62 Ind. 301	44
1877	Runyan v. State†	57 Ind. 80	43
1887	Harris v. Carpenter†	109 Ind. 540	40
1879	Parsons v. Milford†	67 Ind. 489	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 737 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 William E. Niblack on?: William E. Niblack was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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12 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).