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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1955 / Served to 1969

Arthur Easterbrook Whittemore

Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Arthur Easterbrook Whittemore was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1969
Tenure: 1955–1969 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Whittemore authored 547 published opinions for the court (1955–1969), plus 9 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Commonwealth v. McHoul (220 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. 146 of these were attributed to Whittemore 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
1967	Commonwealth v. McHoul	226 N.E.2d 556	220
1967	Commonwealth v. Subilosky	224 N.E.2d 197	92
1964	Stop & Shop, Inc. v. Ganem	200 N.E.2d 248	87
1957	Marotta v. Board of Appeals of Revere	143 N.E.2d 270	74
1961	Commonwealth v. Binkiewicz	175 N.E.2d 473	66
1963	Commonwealth v. Crehan	188 N.E.2d 923	64
1967	Commonwealth v. Doherty	229 N.E.2d 267	59
1965	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.	205 N.E.2d 346	57
1961	Kane v. Fields Corner Grille, Inc.	171 N.E.2d 287	57
1969	Commonwealth v. Ricard	246 N.E.2d 433	55
1964	Commonwealth v. Lehan	196 N.E.2d 840	54
1960	Grady v. Collins Transportation Co. Inc.	170 N.E.2d 725	51
1968	Commonwealth v. Blackburn	237 N.E.2d 35	49
1965	Brady v. Board of Appeals of Westport	204 N.E.2d 513	49
1961	MacKenzie v. School Committee of Ipswich	174 N.E.2d 657	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 557 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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Arthur Easterbrook Whittemore on?: Arthur Easterbrook Whittemore was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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