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 1947 / Served to 1960

Albert E. Burling

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Albert E. Burling was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1960
Tenure: 1947–1960 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Burling authored 262 published opinions for the court (1947–1960), plus 21 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. City of Newark (227 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. 37 of these were attributed to Burling 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
1952	Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. City of Newark	89 A.2d 385	227
1959	State v. Lucas	152 A.2d 50	182
1952	Riverview Gardens, Section One, Inc. v. Borough of North Arlington	87 A.2d 425	116
1960	Two Guys From Harrison, Inc. v. Furman· Concurrence†	160 A.2d 265	109
1960	Adler's Quality Bakery, Inc. v. Gaseteria, Inc.	159 A.2d 97	108
1950	New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. v. Communications Workers of America	75 A.2d 721	106
1960	McAndrew v. Mularchuk· Concurrence†	162 A.2d 820	104
1957	Elizabeth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Howell· Dissent†	132 A.2d 779	100
1957	Robbins v. City of Jersey	128 A.2d 673	100
1954	Stanley Co. of America v. Hercules Powder Co.	108 A.2d 616	92
1959	Dvorkin v. Township of Dover	148 A.2d 793	90
1957	Howard v. Harwood's Restaurant Co.	135 A.2d 161	87
1953	Yanow v. Seven Oaks Park, Inc.	94 A.2d 482	83
1952	Monmouth Lumber Co. v. Township of Ocean	87 A.2d 9	83
1958	Dalton v. St. Luke's Catholic Church· Dissent†	141 A.2d 273	75

Showing the 15 most-cited of 293 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 Albert E. Burling on?: Albert E. Burling was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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13 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).