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

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1925 / Served to 1946

Armstead Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Armstead Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1875–1951
Tenure: 1925–1946 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 518 published opinions for the court (1923–1949), plus 353 dissents and 312 concurrences. Most cited: Winn & Lovett Grocery Co. v. Archer (169 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 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
1936	Winn & Lovett Grocery Co. v. Archer· Concurrence	171 So. 214	169
1926	Malone v. Meres· Dissent	109 So. 677	139
1927	Lovett and Lovett v. Lovett	112 So. 768	128
1926	Bessie Cannon v. State of Florida	107 So. 360	126
1944	Cason v. Baskin	20 So. 2d 243	117
1925	Nickels v. State· Separate	106 So. 479	106
1941	The City of Miami Beach v. Ocean Inland Co.· Concurrence	3 So. 2d 364	102
1929	Wilton v. County St. Johns· Separate	123 So. 527	96
1928	Hazen v. Cobb-Vaughan Motor Co.	117 So. 853	93
1928	Suarez v. State of Florida	115 So. 519	93
1938	American Bakeries Co. v. City of Haines City	180 So. 524	89
1929	State of Florida Ex Rel. Davis v. City of Stuart	120 So. 335	83
1933	Minick v. Minick	149 So. 483	82
1930	Carolina Portland Cement Co. v. Baumgartner	128 So. 241	79
1927	Wade v. Clower	114 So. 548	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,233 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 Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Armstead Brown on?: Armstead Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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