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Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1903 / Served to 1913

Charles Albert Woods

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Charles Albert Woods was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1903. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1852–1925
Tenure: 1903–1913 · 10 yrs
Education: Wofford College 1872

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1903	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Education

Wofford College

A.B.

1872

Judicial Record

In our data, Woods authored 21 published opinions for the court (1903–1913), plus 3 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bethune (17 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. 36 of these were attributed to Woods 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
1910	State v. Bethune· Separate†	67 S.E. 466	17
1913	Gill v. Ruggles· Concurrence†	78 S.E. 536	14
1910	Caldwell v. Duncan· Concurrence†	69 S.E. 660	13
1909	Breeden v. Moore†	64 S.E. 604	11
1904	Columbian B. & L. Ass'n v. Rice†	47 S.E. 63	11
1904	Matheny v. City of Aiken· Concurrence†	47 S.E. 56	10
1912	Fonville v. Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Ry. Co.· Concurrence†	75 S.E. 172	9
1903	Muckenfuss v. Fishburne†	46 S.E. 537	9
1904	Battle v. Columbia, Newberry & Laurens R. R.· Concurrence†	49 S.E. 849	6
1910	Metz v. Critcher†	68 S.E. 627	5
1909	Glenn v. Western Union Tel. Co.· Concurrence†	65 S.E. 1024	4
1906	State v. Ivey· Concurrence†	53 S.E. 428	4
1911	Jeffers v. Jeffers· Dissent†	71 S.E. 810	3
1908	German-American Insurance v. Southern Ry.†	62 S.E. 1115	3
1908	L. D. Riley & Son v. Southern Ry.†	62 S.E. 509	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Charles Albert Woods on?: Charles Albert Woods was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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