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

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1970 / Served to 1975

David L. McCain

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

David L. McCain was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–1986
Tenure: 1970–1975 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McCain authored 106 published opinions for the court (1971–1975), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In Re Estate of Carpenter (145 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. 39 of these were attributed to McCain 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
1971	In Re Estate of Carpenter	253 So. 2d 697	145
1971	Thompson v. Commercial Union Ins. Co. of New York	250 So. 2d 259	94
1972	Hutchison v. Tompkins	259 So. 2d 129	85
1972	Wagner v. Bieley, Wagner & Associates, Inc.	263 So. 2d 1	79
1973	Edwards v. Ford	279 So. 2d 851	50
1973	Klosters Rederi A/S v. Arison Shipping Company	280 So. 2d 678	47
1974	Goodman v. Olsen	305 So. 2d 753	46
1974	Wilson v. State	304 So. 2d 119	45
1971	St. Moritz Hotel v. Daughtry	249 So. 2d 27	39
1973	State Ex Rel. Vining v. FLORIDA REAL ESTATE COM'N	281 So. 2d 487	34
1971	Boyd v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.	256 So. 2d 1	34
1971	Manning v. Travelers Insurance Company	250 So. 2d 872	32
1973	Williams v. State	285 So. 2d 13	30
1974	Mount Sinai Hosp. of Greater Miami, Inc. v. Jordan	290 So. 2d 484	29
1973	ALLSTATE MORTGAGE CORPORATION OF FLA. v. Strasser	286 So. 2d 201	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 111 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 Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was David L. McCain on?: David L. McCain was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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