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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1971 / Served to 1972

Alexander F. Barbieri

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Alexander F. Barbieri was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1993
Tenure: 1971–1972 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barbieri authored 23 published opinions for the court (1971), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Amos (111 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. 26 of these were attributed to Barbieri 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
1971	Commonwealth v. Amos†	445 Pa. 297	111
1971	Boyce v. United States Steel Corp.†	446 Pa. 226	57
1971	Houston v. Canon Bowl, Inc.†	443 Pa. 383	52
1971	American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees v. Shapp· Dissent†	443 Pa. 527	50
1971	Temple v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways†	445 Pa. 539	47
1971	Brletich v. United States Steel Corp.†	445 Pa. 525	46
1971	APPLE v. Reichert†	443 Pa. 289	42
1971	Funds for Business Growth, Inc. v. Maraldo†	443 Pa. 281	41
1971	Commonwealth v. Ferguson†	444 Pa. 478	34
1971	Ratony Estate· Concurrence†	443 Pa. 454	31
1971	Gower Estate†	445 Pa. 554	25
1971	Commonwealth v. Hawkins†	445 Pa. 279	23
1971	Commonwealth v. Johnson†	445 Pa. 276	23
1971	Fallon v. Penn Central Transportation Co.†	444 Pa. 148	22
1971	Commonwealth v. Pomponi†	447 Pa. 154	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Alexander F. Barbieri on?: Alexander F. Barbieri was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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