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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1976 / Served to 1980

Charles E. Orth Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Charles E. Orth Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1994
Tenure: 1976–1980 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University
University of Baltimore

Judicial Record

In our data, Orth authored 67 published opinions for the court (1976–1980), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. (225 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. 70 of these were attributed to Orth 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
1978	Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc.†	389 A.2d 887	225
1977	Ross v. Hoffman†	372 A.2d 582	145
1979	Pope v. State†	396 A.2d 1054	138
1977	Beahm v. Shortall†	368 A.2d 1005	103
1978	Johnson v. State· Dissent†	384 A.2d 709	98
1977	State v. Kidd†	375 A.2d 1105	94
1978	State v. Ward†	396 A.2d 1041	93
1979	Resetar v. State Board of Education· Concurrence†	399 A.2d 225	92
1979	Austin v. Mayor of Baltimore†	405 A.2d 255	88
1979	Sergeant Co. v. Pickett†	401 A.2d 651	87
1978	Wheeler v. State†	380 A.2d 1052	87
1976	Board of Trustees v. John K. Ruff, Inc.†	366 A.2d 360	82
1979	Countess v. State	408 A.2d 1302	81
1978	MacKall v. State†	387 A.2d 762	68
1979	Snead v. State†	406 A.2d 98	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 72 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 Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Charles E. Orth Jr. on?: Charles E. Orth Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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