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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1962 / Served to 1963

Earl S. Keim

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Earl S. Keim was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1980
Tenure: 1962–1963 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Keim authored 9 published opinions for the court (1962). Most cited: L. B. Foster Co. v. Tri-W Construction Co. (31 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. 9 of these were attributed to Keim 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	L. B. Foster Co. v. Tri-W Construction Co.†	409 Pa. 318	31
1962	Foote v. Maryland Casualty Co.†	409 Pa. 307	26
1962	Universal Builders Supply, Inc. v. Shaler Highlands Corp.†	409 Pa. 334	17
1962	Palandro v. Bollinger†	409 Pa. 296	16
1962	Covert Appeal†	409 Pa. 290	14
1962	Feltovich v. Sharon†	409 Pa. 314	9
1962	Ricketts v. Allegheny County†	409 Pa. 300	6
1962	South Pymatuning Township Appeal†	409 Pa. 324	6
1962	Fischman v. Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees†	409 Pa. 364	5

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 was Earl S. Keim on?: Earl S. Keim was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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1 year 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).