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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1982

Blair Moody Jr.

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Blair Moody Jr. was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–1982
Tenure: 1977–1982 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moody authored 46 published opinions for the court (1977–2009), plus 20 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: Friedman v. Dozorc (243 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. 58 of these were attributed to Moody 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
1981	Friedman v. Dozorc· Dissent†	312 N.W.2d 585	243
1979	O'Donnell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance· Concurrence†	273 N.W.2d 829	192
1982	Lothian v. City of Detroit· Concurrence†	324 N.W.2d 9	166
1977	McAvoy v. H B Sherman Co.†	258 N.W.2d 414	162
1979	Bush v. Oscoda Area Schools· Concurrence†	275 N.W.2d 268	136
1977	People v. Stewart	256 N.W.2d 31	135
1978	Parker v. City of Highland Park· Concurrence†	273 N.W.2d 413	134
1979	Lockaby v. Wayne County· Concurrence†	276 N.W.2d 1	133
1978	Rosario v. City of Lansing· Concurrence†	268 N.W.2d 230	125
1980	Mathis v. Interstate Motor Freight System· Concurrence†	289 N.W.2d 708	120
1978	Aquilina v. General Motors Corp.	267 N.W.2d 923	115
1982	Burnett v. City of Adrian· Concurrence†	326 N.W.2d 810	113
1982	Hardy v. Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc· Dissent†	323 N.W.2d 270	107
1979	White v. City of Ann Arbor· Concurrence†	281 N.W.2d 283	106
2009	Deziel v. Difco Laboratories, Inc.	268 N.W.2d 1	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 97 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 Michigan Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Blair Moody Jr. on?: Blair Moody Jr. was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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