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Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1868 / Served to 1880

Ammiel J. Willard

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Ammiel J. Willard was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1868. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1822–1900
Tenure: 1868–1880 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1868	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Willard authored 232 published opinions for the court (1868–1880), plus 5 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Morton, Bliss & Co. v. Comptroller General (10 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. 251 of these were attributed to Willard 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
1873	Morton, Bliss & Co. v. Comptroller General†	4 S.C. 430	10
1868	State v. Bailey†	1 S.C. 1	10
1877	Henderson v. Wyatt†	8 S.C. 112	8
1875	Corwin v. Comptroller General· Concurrence†	6 S.C. 390	8
1872	Sullivan v. Thomas†	3 S.C. 531	8
1876	DeSaussure v. Bollmann· Concurrence†	7 S.C. 329	4
1876	Witsell v. Charleston†	7 S.C. 88	4
1875	State v. Coleman†	6 S.C. 185	4
1872	Carter v. Brown†	3 S.C. 298	4
1875	Sampson & Wyatt v. Singer Manufacturing Co.†	5 S.C. 465	3
1874	Aiken v. Telegraph Co.†	5 S.C. 358	3
1873	Columbia Water Power Co. v. Columbia†	4 S.C. 388	3
1870	State ex rel. Attorney General v. Platt†	2 S.C. 150	3
1870	Fitzsimons v. Fitzsimons†	1 S.C. 400	3
1880	Robson v. Miller†	12 S.C. 586	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 251 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Ammiel J. Willard on?: Ammiel J. Willard was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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