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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1963 / Served to 1979

Alfred Hahn Joslin

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Alfred Hahn Joslin was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1991
Tenure: 1963–1979 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Brown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Joslin authored 525 published opinions for the court (1963–1983), plus 17 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Barbato v. Epstein (203 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. 120 of these were attributed to Joslin 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
1964	Barbato v. Epstein	196 A.2d 836	203
1975	Mariorenzi v. Joseph DiPonte, Inc.· Dissent†	333 A.2d 127	117
1967	Bragg v. Warwick Shoppers World, Inc.	227 A.2d 582	100
1969	State v. Contreras	253 A.2d 612	72
1968	Hooper v. Goldstein	241 A.2d 809	70
1971	State v. Mancini	274 A.2d 742	68
1973	Rhode Island Consumers' Council v. Smith	302 A.2d 757	62
1969	Conn v. ITT Aetna Finance Co.	252 A.2d 184	61
1968	Slefkin v. Tarkomian	238 A.2d 742	59
1970	May-Day Realty Corp. v. PAWT. APPEALS BD.	267 A.2d 400	56
1965	State v. Dufour· Concurrence†	206 A.2d 82	56
1978	Nagy v. McBurney	392 A.2d 365	55
1978	State v. McGehearty	394 A.2d 1348	49
1978	Digby v. Digby	388 A.2d 1	48
1964	Rogers v. Rogers	201 A.2d 140	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 555 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Alfred Hahn Joslin on?: Alfred Hahn Joslin was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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