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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1960 / Served to 1975

Benning M. Grice

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Benning M. Grice was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–1988
Tenure: 1960–1975 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grice authored 935 published opinions for the court (1939–1974), plus 28 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Gregg v. State (190 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. 259 of these were attributed to Grice 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
1974	Gregg v. State	210 S.E.2d 659	190
1974	Robinson v. Ashmore· Concurrence†	207 S.E.2d 484	92
1940	Girtman v. Girtman	11 S.E.2d 782	82
1943	Clark v. Bandy	27 S.E.2d 17	75
1974	Ross v. State	211 S.E.2d 356	74
1971	Purvis v. Connell	182 S.E.2d 892	74
1969	Wallace v. Wallace	166 S.E.2d 718	72
1961	Reynolds v. Reynolds· Concurrence†	123 S.E.2d 115	72
1970	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Murphy	177 S.E.2d 257	70
1963	Horton v. Horton	132 S.E.2d 200	66
1944	Myers v. Phillips	29 S.E.2d 700	65
1971	Crowder v. Department of State Parks	185 S.E.2d 908	63
1969	Jackson v. State	165 S.E.2d 711	63
1971	Morris v. State	184 S.E.2d 82	59
1974	Parris v. State· Concurrence†	208 S.E.2d 493	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 981 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 Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Benning M. Grice on?: Benning M. Grice was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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