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Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1954 / Served to 1974

Carlton Mobley

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Carlton Mobley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1981
Tenure: 1954–1974 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mobley authored 879 published opinions for the court (1954–1974), plus 23 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Hill v. Willis (206 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. 266 of these were attributed to Mobley 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
1968	Hill v. Willis· Dissent†	161 S.E.2d 281	206
1955	Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell· Dissent†	88 S.E.2d 6	111
1957	Shea v. Phillips· Dissent†	98 S.E.2d 552	108
1972	McNeal v. State	187 S.E.2d 272	94
1962	Dependable Insurance Co. v. Gibbs	127 S.E.2d 454	84
1970	Johnson v. State	175 S.E.2d 840	80
1959	Martin v. Baldwin	110 S.E.2d 344	72
1967	Abrams v. State	154 S.E.2d 443	71
1966	Evans v. State	150 S.E.2d 240	68
1972	Clenney v. State	192 S.E.2d 907	63
1964	Farmers Warehouse of Pelham, Inc. v. Collins	137 S.E.2d 619	62
1972	Ezzard v. State	192 S.E.2d 374	60
1957	Wolverine Insurance v. Jack Jordan, Inc.	99 S.E.2d 95	59
1965	National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Overstreet	142 S.E.2d 816	58
1970	Young v. State	176 S.E.2d 52	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 908 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 Carlton Mobley on?: Carlton Mobley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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20 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).