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New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 1947 / Served to 1966

Amos Noyes Blandin Jr.

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Amos Noyes Blandin Jr. was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1962
Tenure: 1947–1966 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Dartmouth College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Blandin authored 314 published opinions for the court (1947–1966), plus 14 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Briere v. Briere (154 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. 73 of these were attributed to Blandin 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
1966	Briere v. Briere	107 N.H. 432	154
1960	Smith v. American Employers' Insurance	102 N.H. 530	59
1963	Peerless Insurance v. Clough†	105 N.H. 76	50
1947	Newell v. Moreau· Dissent	55 A.2d 476	37
1957	Public Service Co. v. New Hampton	101 N.H. 142	34
1956	State v. Duke	100 N.H. 292	34
1949	State v. Grierson	69 A.2d 851	28
1953	New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. State· Dissent†	98 N.H. 211	26
1958	Bolduc v. Richards	101 N.H. 303	25
1953	Hoebee v. Howe	98 N.H. 168	25
1966	Hanchett v. Brezner Tanning Co.	107 N.H. 236	24
1963	Chagnon v. Union-Leader Corp.	104 N.H. 472	24
1964	Hoyt v. Horst	105 N.H. 380	23
1957	Patey v. Peaslee· Dissent†	101 N.H. 26	23
1964	Aldrich v. Charles Beauregard & Sons	105 N.H. 330	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 329 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 Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Amos Noyes Blandin Jr. on?: Amos Noyes Blandin Jr. was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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