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Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1998 / Served to 2007

Dale R. Cathell

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Dale R. Cathell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1998–2007 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

University of Baltimore

Judicial Record

In our data, Cathell authored 206 published opinions for the court (1998–2007), plus 27 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Attorney Grievance Commission v. Vanderlinde (264 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. 242 of these were attributed to Cathell 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
2001	Attorney Grievance Commission v. Vanderlinde†	773 A.2d 463	264
2000	Philip Morris Inc. v. Angeletti· Dissent†	752 A.2d 200	212
2000	County Commissioners v. J. Roland Dashiell & Sons, Inc.	747 A.2d 600	208
2005	Walther v. Sovereign Bank†	872 A.2d 735	159
1999	Degren v. State†	722 A.2d 887	158
2000	Colandrea v. Wilde Lake Community Ass'n†	761 A.2d 899	149
2003	State v. Smith†	823 A.2d 664	144
1999	Klauenberg v. State†	735 A.2d 1061	143
2006	Schisler v. State†	907 A.2d 175	140
2000	Heron v. Strader· Dissent†	761 A.2d 56	120
2000	Williams v. Mayor of Baltimore†	753 A.2d 41	120
1999	Allied Investment Corp. v. Jasen†	731 A.2d 957	117
2006	Chow v. State†	903 A.2d 388	113
2002	Mayor and Council of Rockville v. Rylyns Enterprises, Inc.· Dissent†	814 A.2d 469	111
2001	Wilkes v. State†	364 Md. 554	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 244 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 Dale R. Cathell on?: Dale R. Cathell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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9 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).