How do judges of the Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1951 / Served to 1973

Daniel F. Wolcott

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Daniel F. Wolcott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1951–1973 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wolcott authored 605 published opinions for the court (1922–1973), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Ebersole v. Lowengrub (502 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. 94 of these were attributed to Wolcott 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
1962	Ebersole v. Lowengrub†	180 A.2d 467	502
1965	Johnson v. Chrysler Corporation	213 A.2d 64	272
1972	Levitt v. Bouvier	287 A.2d 671	265
1971	Sinclair Oil Corporation v. Levien	280 A.2d 717	258
1970	McWane Cast Iron Pipe Corp. v. McDowell-Wellman Engineering Co.	263 A.2d 281	184
1971	Schnell v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.· Dissent†	285 A.2d 437	164
1967	Wootten v. Kiger	226 A.2d 238	131
1967	Jenkins v. State	230 A.2d 262	126
1970	Diamond State Telephone Co. v. University of Delaware	269 A.2d 52	119
1952	Kerbs v. California Eastern Airways, Inc.†	90 A.2d 652	110
1970	Bokat v. Getty Oil Company	262 A.2d 246	106
1968	Pauley Petroleum Inc. v. Continental Oil Company	239 A.2d 629	101
1966	Chrysler Corporation v. Dann	223 A.2d 384	94
1969	Hessler, Inc. v. Farrell	260 A.2d 701	91
1965	Friday v. Smoot†	211 A.2d 594	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 613 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 Daniel F. Wolcott on?: Daniel F. Wolcott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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22 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).