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 1853 / Served to 1858

William Z. Stuart

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

William Z. Stuart was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1853. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1853–1858 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1853	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Amherst College

Judicial Record

In our data, Stuart authored 297 published opinions for the court (1853–1857), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Webb v. Baird (87 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. 300 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
1854	Webb v. Baird†	6 Ind. 13	87
1855	Stocking v. State†	7 Ind. 326	84
1857	Noel v. Ewing†	9 Ind. 37	55
1853	Maize v. State†	4 Ind. 342	55
1854	Kenworthy v. Williams†	5 Ind. 375	39
1856	Kyle v. Malin†	8 Ind. 34	32
1853	Blythe v. State†	4 Ind. 525	32
1854	Langdon v. Applegate· Dissent†	5 Ind. 327	30
1855	Wolcott v. Wigton†	7 Ind. 44	27
1855	Port v. Williams†	6 Ind. 219	27
1855	Dickerson v. Board of Commissioners†	6 Ind. 128	26
1854	Gillenwater v. Madison & Indianapolis Railroad†	5 Ind. 339	26
1854	Kentucky Mutual Insurance v. Jenks†	5 Ind. 96	26
1853	Orr v. Baker†	4 Ind. 86	26
1857	Gillespie v. State†	9 Ind. 380	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 300 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 Z. Stuart on?: William Z. Stuart was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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4 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).