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

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

Nebraska Supreme Court / Joined 1909 / Served to 1943

William B. Rose

Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court

William B. Rose was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1909. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1954
Tenure: 1909–1943 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1909	Nebraska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rose authored 954 published opinions for the court (1909–1943), plus 83 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Hiestand v. Ristau (93 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. 1,048 of these were attributed to Rose 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
1939	Hiestand v. Ristau†	135 Neb. 881	93
1930	Hickman v. Fenton†	120 Neb. 66	85
1928	Roth v. Blomquist†	117 Neb. 444	62
1935	Pettegrew v. Pettegrew†	128 Neb. 783	54
1912	Duncan v. Nebraska Sanitarium & Benevolent Ass'n†	92 Neb. 162	46
1942	State ex rel. Ralston v. Turner· Dissent†	141 Neb. 556	45
1938	Windle v. Kelly†	135 Neb. 143	38
1931	Frost v. Schinkel· Concurrence†	121 Neb. 784	37
1922	Toop v. Palmer†	108 Neb. 850	37
1919	Howard County v. Pesha†	103 Neb. 296	37
1929	McCulley v. Anderson†	119 Neb. 105	36
1923	Louie Osborne Person v. Armour & Co.†	109 Neb. 648	36
1930	Spittler v. Dishner†	120 Neb. 226	35
1924	Sherlock v. Sherlock†	112 Neb. 797	35
1920	Reichenbach Land & Loan Co. v. Butler County†	105 Neb. 209	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,050 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 Nebraska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William B. Rose on?: William B. Rose was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Sources

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