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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1922 / Served to 1946

cristie Seymour Rodney

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

cristie Seymour Rodney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1922. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1882 · age 144
Tenure: 1922–1946 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1922	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rodney authored 23 published opinions for the court (1923–1945), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Glanding v. Industrial Trust Co. (71 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. 25 of these were attributed to Rodney 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
1945	Glanding v. Industrial Trust Co.· Dissent†	28 Del. Ch. 499	71
1941	Darling Apartment Co. v. Springer· Concurrence†	25 Del. Ch. 420	69
1945	Bird v. Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts†	28 Del. Ch. 449	58
1944	Buckingham v. State†	42 Del. 405	33
1933	Stephenson v. Commonwealth & Southern Corp.	19 Del. Ch. 447	32
1925	Marvel v. State†	33 Del. 110	27
1941	Shanik v. White Sewing Machine Corporation	19 A.2d 831	26
1937	Miles v. Layton†	38 Del. 411	25
1928	Standard Scale and Supply Corp. v. Chappel	16 Del. Ch. 331	20
1937	du Pont v. Green†	38 Del. 566	15
1930	State v. Highfield†	34 Del. 272	15
1945	Hannigan v. Italo Petroleum Corp. of America†	43 Del. 333	14
1944	Eddington v. Turner†	27 Del. Ch. 411	14
1941	Farrell v. Faries· Dissent†	25 Del. Ch. 404	11
1942	Lynch v. Bunting†	42 Del. 171	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was cristie Seymour Rodney on?: cristie Seymour Rodney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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