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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1953

Allyn Larabee Brown

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Allyn Larabee Brown was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1973
Tenure: 1935–1953 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Brown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 628 published opinions for the court (1929–1953), plus 18 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Urban v. Hartford Gas Co. (126 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. 11 of these were attributed to Brown 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	Urban v. Hartford Gas Co.	139 Conn. 301	126
1952	Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. v. Pearson	139 Conn. 186	109
1951	International Brotherhood of Teamsters of America v. Shapiro	138 Conn. 57	107
1953	Jo-Mark Sand & Gravel Co. v. Pantanella	139 Conn. 598	106
1951	Lach v. Cahill	138 Conn. 418	104
1952	Malone v. Steinberg	138 Conn. 718	102
1943	Defelice v. Zoning Board of Appeals	32 A.2d 635	102
1953	Krasnow v. Krasnow	140 Conn. 254	92
1952	Watson v. Howard	138 Conn. 464	88
1952	Kutcher v. Town Planning Commission	138 Conn. 705	87
1953	D'AMATO v. Johnston	140 Conn. 54	84
1953	Parsons v. Board of Zoning Appeals	140 Conn. 290	81
1953	O'LEARY v. McGuinness	140 Conn. 80	81
1938	Grady v. Katz	1 A.2d 137	76
1951	Zenik v. O'BRIEN	137 Conn. 592	70

Showing the 15 most-cited of 649 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 Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Allyn Larabee Brown on?: Allyn Larabee Brown was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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