How do judges of the New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1929 / Served to 1952

Clarence E. Case

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Clarence E. Case was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1929. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1961
Tenure: 1929–1952 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1929	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-Camden
New York Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Case authored 589 published opinions for the court (1929–1952), plus 17 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Winberry v. Salisbury (275 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. 610 of these were attributed to Case 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
1950	Winberry v. Salisbury· Concurrence†	74 A.2d 406	275
1935	State Ex Rel. State Board of Milk Control v. Newark Milk Co.· Dissent†	179 A. 116	113
1951	Hager v. Weber· Concurrence†	81 A.2d 155	97
1951	Barringer v. Miele†	77 A.2d 895	67
1944	Wilentz v. Hendrickson· Dissent†	38 A.2d 199	64
1950	In Re the Estate of Santa Perrone· Dissent†	76 A.2d 518	63
1951	Callen v. Gill†	81 A.2d 495	60
1951	Milstrey v. City of Hackensack· Dissent†	79 A.2d 37	57
1949	Jamouneau v. Division of Tax Appeals†	66 A.2d 534	57
1951	Town of Montclair v. Stanoyevich†	79 A.2d 288	55
1947	Hudson Bergen County Retail Liquor Stores Ass'n v. Board of Commissioners†	52 A.2d 668	43
1948	Oldfield v. New Jersey Realty Co.†	61 A.2d 767	41
1951	In Re Baker· Dissent†	85 A.2d 505	40
1948	L. Bamberger & Co. v. Division of Tax Appeals†	62 A.2d 389	40
1951	McKeeby v. Arthur†	81 A.2d 1	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 610 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 New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Clarence E. Case on?: Clarence E. Case was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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