How do judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia / Joined 1952 / Served to 1971

Chauncey Browning

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Chauncey Browning was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1971
Tenure: 1952–1971 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Education

West Virginia University

Judicial Record

In our data, Browning authored 266 published opinions for the court (1952–1971), plus 32 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Kucera v. City of Wheeling (259 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. 140 of these were attributed to Browning 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	State Ex Rel. Kucera v. City of Wheeling	170 S.E.2d 367	259
1970	Barnett v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner†	172 S.E.2d 698	228
1953	Crawford v. Taylor	75 S.E.2d 370	179
1958	State Ex Rel. Graney v. Sims	105 S.E.2d 886	90
1964	State Ex Rel. County Court of Marion County v. Demus	135 S.E.2d 352	76
1970	State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood†	175 S.E.2d 482	75
1953	State ex rel. Trent v. Sims· Concurrence†	138 W. Va. 244	71
1954	Davis v. Hix	84 S.E.2d 404	61
1959	Re: The Assessment of Shares of Stock of the Kanawna Valley Bank	109 S.E.2d 649	58
1957	State Ex Rel. Browning v. Tucker· Dissent†	98 S.E.2d 740	53
1969	Bethlehem Mines Corporation v. Haden	172 S.E.2d 126	47
1966	State v. Fortner	148 S.E.2d 669	47
1961	Leftwich v. Wesco Corp.· Dissent†	146 W. Va. 196	46
1971	In Re Appeal of Prezkop	179 S.E.2d 331	45
1960	State Ex Rel. Vandal v. Adams†	115 S.E.2d 489	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 306 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 Appeals of West Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Chauncey Browning on?: Chauncey Browning was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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