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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

North Dakota Supreme Court / Joined 1923 / Served to 1951

William L. Nuessle

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

William L. Nuessle was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1959
Tenure: 1923–1951 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Nuessle authored 394 published opinions for the court (1923–1951), plus 19 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Lang v. City of Cavalier (70 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. 33 of these were attributed to Nuessle 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
1930	Lang v. City of Cavalier	228 N.W. 819	70
1946	Rickbeil v. Grafton Deaconess Hospital· Dissent	23 N.W.2d 247	64
1932	Fitzmaurice v. Fitzmaurice	242 N.W. 526	63
1942	Leonard v. North Dakota Co-Operative Wool Marketing Ass'n· Dissent	6 N.W.2d 576	60
1926	County of Divide v. Baird· Concurrence	212 N.W. 236	58
1945	State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Baker	21 N.W.2d 355	53
1927	Martin v. Parkins	213 N.W. 574	51
1943	State v. Cromwell	9 N.W.2d 914	50
1925	Doyle v. Doyle	202 N.W. 860	49
1942	Otter Tail Power Co. v. Henry Von Bank	8 N.W.2d 599	44
1950	Ferderer v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.	42 N.W.2d 216	38
1934	Burrows v. Paulson	254 N.W. 471	38
1926	Minneapolis Threshing MacH. Co. v. Hocking	209 N.W. 996	37
1947	Herr v. Rudolf	25 N.W.2d 916	34
1938	State v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States	282 N.W. 411	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 429 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 North Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was William L. Nuessle on?: William L. Nuessle was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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