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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1959 / Served to 1969

Charles C. Bernstein

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Charles C. Bernstein was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1976
Tenure: 1959–1969 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

Southwestern University
Southwestern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bernstein authored 267 published opinions for the court (1949–1969), plus 30 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Tovrea Land and Cattle Company v. Linsenmeyer (158 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. 71 of these were attributed to Bernstein 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
1966	Tovrea Land and Cattle Company v. Linsenmeyer	412 P.2d 47	158
1960	State v. Little	350 P.2d 756	135
1966	Phillips v. Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation	413 P.2d 732	97
1965	State v. Bearden	405 P.2d 885	90
1967	Sandoval v. Chenoweth· Dissent†	428 P.2d 98	84
1964	State v. Owen· Concurrence†	394 P.2d 206	76
1966	Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. v. Superior Court· Concurrence†	418 P.2d 594	75
1966	Caruso v. Superior Court in and for County of Pima	412 P.2d 463	75
1966	State v. Berry	419 P.2d 337	74
1964	State v. Burrell	393 P.2d 921	72
1967	State v. Martin	426 P.2d 639	67
1959	Allen v. Industrial Commission	347 P.2d 710	67
1965	State v. Essman	403 P.2d 540	65
1968	Lindus v. Northern Insurance Company of New York	438 P.2d 311	63
1962	Peterson v. Valley National Bank of Phoenix	368 P.2d 317	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 304 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 Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Charles C. Bernstein on?: Charles C. Bernstein was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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