How do judges of the Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1957

Antonio A. Capotosto

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Antonio A. Capotosto was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1935–1957 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Capotosto authored 452 published opinions for the court (1935–1956), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Colangelo (62 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. 29 of these were attributed to Capotosto 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
1935	State v. Colangelo	179 A. 147	62
1949	Psaty & Fuhrman, Inc. v. Housing Authority	68 A.2d 32	55
1936	Gorham v. Robinson· Dissent	186 A. 832	54
1937	Creditors' Service Corp. v. Cummings	190 A. 2	52
1947	Durepo v. May	54 A.2d 15	34
1938	Robinson v. T.C. of Narragansett	199 A. 308	34
1954	State v. Peters	107 A.2d 428	33
1950	Valente v. Bourne Mills	75 A.2d 191	32
1950	Carlson v. McLyman	74 A.2d 853	28
1942	Bloomfield v. Brown	25 A.2d 354	28
1937	State v. Domanski	190 A. 854	28
1947	State v. Boswell	56 A.2d 196	26
1954	Nelson v. Progressive Realty Corp.	104 A.2d 241	23
1938	James v. R. I. Auditorium, Inc.	199 A. 293	23
1937	Dembicer v. Pawtucket Cabinet & Builders Finish Co.	193 A. 622	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 456 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 Antonio A. Capotosto on?: Antonio A. Capotosto was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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22 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).