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Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1949 / Served to 1972

Bond Almand

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Bond Almand was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1985
Tenure: 1949–1972 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Almand authored 961 published opinions for the court (1947–1972), plus 34 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: De Palma v. State (211 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. 334 of these were attributed to Almand 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
1969	De Palma v. State	169 S.E.2d 801	211
1971	Burnette Ford, Inc. v. Hayes	181 S.E.2d 866	149
1968	Town of Fort Oglethorpe v. Phillips	165 S.E.2d 141	95
1958	Woodside v. City of Atlanta· Dissent†	103 S.E.2d 108	91
1965	Hill v. State	142 S.E.2d 909	67
1965	Britten v. State· Dissent†	143 S.E.2d 176	63
1950	Carrigan v. State	58 S.E.2d 407	61
1968	Miller v. State	163 S.E.2d 730	60
1964	Interstate Life & Accident Insurance v. Williamson	138 S.E.2d 668	60
1956	Hornbuckle v. Plantation Pipe Line Co.· Dissent†	93 S.E.2d 727	60
1972	Hughes v. State	187 S.E.2d 135	56
1966	Williams v. State	149 S.E.2d 449	56
1958	Cravey v. Southeastern Underwriters Ass'n	105 S.E.2d 497	56
1950	Genone v. Citizens Ins. Co. of New Jersey	60 S.E.2d 125	55
1970	Plantation Pipe Line Co. v. City of Bremen· Concurrence†	178 S.E.2d 863	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,003 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 Bond Almand on?: Bond Almand was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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23 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).