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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2016 / Active

David N. Wecht

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

David N. Wecht is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2016. He previously served on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2016 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–
2016	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wecht authored 155 published opinions for the court (2012–2026), plus 53 dissents and 78 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Antidormi (1,004 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. 286 of these were attributed to Wecht 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
2014	Commonwealth v. Antidormi†	84 A.3d 736	1,004
2017	Commonwealth v. Muniz, J., Aplt.· Concurrence†	164 A.3d 1189	899
2013	Commonwealth v. Dodge· Dissent†	77 A.3d 1263	719
2015	Commonwealth v. Caldwell· Concurrence†	117 A.3d 763	679
2013	Commonwealth v. Barndt†	74 A.3d 185	598
2014	Commonwealth v. Raven†	97 A.3d 1244	541
2014	Commonwealth v. Orellana†	86 A.3d 877	508
2017	In Re: Adoption of: L.B.M., A Minor†	161 A.3d 172	468
2018	In re T.S.· Dissent†	192 A.3d 1080	421
2014	Greater Erie Industrial Development Corp. v. Presque Isle Downs, Inc.†	88 A.3d 222	343
2017	Commonwealth v. Batts, Q., Aplt.· Concurrence†	163 A.3d 410	293
2016	Commonwealth v. Johnson, W., Aplt†	139 A.3d 1257	264
2017	Commonwealth v. Spotz, M., Aplt.†	171 A.3d 675	262
2017	Rancosky v. Washington National Ins. Co., Aplt.· Concurrence†	170 A.3d 364	239
2014	Commonwealth v. Trinidad· Concurrence†	96 A.3d 1031	239

Showing the 15 most-cited of 286 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is David N. Wecht on?: David N. Wecht is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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