How do judges of the New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1957

A Dayton Oliphant

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

A Dayton Oliphant was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1963
Tenure: 1948–1957 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Oliphant authored 208 published opinions for the court (1945–1957), plus 14 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tessmar v. Grosner (150 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. 15 of these were attributed to Oliphant 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
1957	Tessmar v. Grosner	128 A.2d 467	150
1956	Fantony v. Fantony	122 A.2d 593	150
1953	State v. Winne· Dissent†	96 A.2d 63	137
1949	Hackensack Water Co. v. Division of Tax Appeals	65 A.2d 828	118
1957	Jantausch v. Borough of Verona	131 A.2d 881	104
1953	Earl v. Winne	101 A.2d 535	100
1955	Dacunzo v. Edgye	117 A.2d 508	90
1957	Wright v. Bernstein	129 A.2d 19	88
1949	State v. Auld	67 A.2d 175	76
1956	Daly v. Daly	123 A.2d 3	74
1952	City of Newark v. West Milford Tp., Passaic County	88 A.2d 211	74
1949	Waszen v. City of Atlantic City	63 A.2d 255	67
1952	Allegro v. Afton Village Corp.	87 A.2d 430	65
1954	Hartpence v. Grouleff	105 A.2d 514	61
1956	State v. Fair Lawn Service Center, Inc.	120 A.2d 233	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 223 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 New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was A Dayton Oliphant on?: A Dayton Oliphant was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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