How do judges of the Appellate Court of Maryland reach the bench?

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

Appellate Court of Maryland / Joined 1990 / Served to 2010

Arrie Davis

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

Arrie Davis was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2010 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 435 published opinions for the court (1991–2011), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Hines v. French (107 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. 159 of these were attributed to Davis 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
2004	Hines v. French	852 A.2d 1047	107
1996	Williams v. Prince George's County†	685 A.2d 884	102
1997	Thomas v. City of Annapolis	688 A.2d 448	63
1996	Lubore v. RPM Associates, Inc.†	109 Md. App. 312	60
1994	Maxima Corp. v. 6933 Arlington Development Ltd. Partnership	641 A.2d 977	50
2005	Mathis v. Hargrove	888 A.2d 377	47
2006	MOUNT VERNON PROPERTIES, LLC. v. Branch Banking and Trust Co.	907 A.2d 373	42
1999	Residential Warranty Corp. v. Bancroft Homes Greenspring Valley, Inc.†	728 A.2d 783	42
1994	Reuter v. Reuter†	102 Md. App. 212	41
2002	Wilson v. State†	814 A.2d 1	39
1995	Munafo v. State†	105 Md. App. 662	39
1994	Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Scherr†	647 A.2d 1297	37
2004	Baker v. State	853 A.2d 796	36
1995	Pope v. Board of School Commissioners†	106 Md. App. 578	36
1994	Lemley v. Lemley†	102 Md. App. 266	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 439 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 Appellate Court of Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Arrie Davis on?: Arrie Davis was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

Sources

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