How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1824 / Served to 1846

David Johnson

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

David Johnson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1824. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1782–1855
Tenure: 1824–1846 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1824	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 26 published opinions for the court (1824–1950), plus 3 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Mishoe v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. (54 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. 8 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1938	Mishoe v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.	197 S.E. 97	54
1935	Henderson v. Life Ins. Co. of Virginia	179 S.E. 680	25
1932	Timmons v. Williams Wood Products Corp.	162 S.E. 329	22
1943	Momeier v. John McAlister, Inc.· Concurrence	27 S.E.2d 504	13
1925	Cato v. Grendel Cotton Mills	129 S.E. 203	11
1940	Zimmerman v. Central Union Bank Zimmerman	8 S.E.2d 359	10
1946	Weinberg v. Weinberg	37 S.E.2d 507	9
1946	Thompson v. Southern Ry. Co.	37 S.E.2d 278	9
1925	Thomson v. Russell	128 S.E. 421	9
1946	White v. Southern Ry. Co.	38 S.E.2d 111	8
1940	Roof v. Tiller· Concurrence	10 S.E.2d 333	8
1932	Weeks v. Ruff, County Sup'r· Concurrence	162 S.E. 450	8
1932	Patterson v. Cleveland	163 S.E. 784	5
1950	Williams v. Wylie	60 S.E.2d 586	4
1940	Easler v. Blackwell	10 S.E.2d 160	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 34 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was David Johnson on?: David Johnson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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