Supreme Court · Associate Justice
Sherman Minton
Democratic appointee: Appointed by Harry S. Truman (D)
Served 1949–1956 · 8 terms
Confirmed 48–16
Biography
Sherman "Shay" Minton was an American politician and jurist who served as a U.S. senator from Indiana and later became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; he was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Ideology over time
Minton and the 12 justices who overlapped with Minton, 1949–1956
- Sherman Minton
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Minton sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Minton’s range across terms
Served alongside Minton
12 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Minton.
How Minton voted
Every argued case Minton took part in, newest first, with how Minton voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.
Data notes
The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).