How do judges of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1997 / Served to 2013

Correale F. Stevens

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Correale F. Stevens was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2013 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stevens authored 875 published opinions for the court (1998–2026), plus 30 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Griffin (889 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. 471 of these were attributed to Stevens 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
2013	Commonwealth v. Griffin†	65 A.3d 932	889
2007	Commonwealth v. Boyd†	923 A.2d 513	573
2011	Commonwealth v. Ousley†	21 A.3d 1238	481
2013	Commonwealth v. Austin†	66 A.3d 798	480
2009	Commonwealth v. Burton· Concurrence†	973 A.2d 428	470
2002	Commonwealth v. Hickman	799 A.2d 136	455
2006	Commonwealth v. Fullin†	892 A.2d 843	386
2010	Commonwealth v. Mastromarino†	2 A.3d 581	384
2000	Commonwealth v. Goggins· Dissent†	748 A.2d 721	383
2001	Commonwealth v. Dowling	778 A.2d 683	374
2006	Ketterer v. Seifert†	902 A.2d 533	345
2008	Commonwealth v. Williams†	959 A.2d 1252	317
2002	Commonwealth v. Muhammad†	794 A.2d 378	296
2005	Commonwealth v. Rojas†	874 A.2d 638	280
2010	Commonwealth v. Downing†	990 A.2d 788	273

Showing the 15 most-cited of 919 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 Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Correale F. Stevens on?: Correale F. Stevens was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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