How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 1984 / Served to 1995

Edith W. Fine

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Edith W. Fine was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–1995
Tenure: 1984–1995 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Fine authored 201 published opinions for the court (1984–1995), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: Davisson v. Commissioner (179 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. 67 of these were attributed to Fine 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
1984	Davisson v. Commissioner†	18 Mass. App. Ct. 748	179
1989	USM Corp. v. Arthur D. Little Systems, Inc.	546 N.E.2d 888	164
1992	Chase Commercial Corp. v. Owen	588 N.E.2d 705	85
1986	Alexander & Alexander. Inc. v. Danahy	488 N.E.2d 22	75
1987	Bump v. Robbins	509 N.E.2d 12	51
1990	Srebnick v. Lo-Law Transit Management, Inc.	557 N.E.2d 81	47
1986	Haemonetics Corp. v. Brophy & Phillips Co.	501 N.E.2d 524	46
1986	Morgan v. Lalumiere	493 N.E.2d 206	45
1989	Harrington v. Fall River Housing Authority	538 N.E.2d 24	43
1993	Shawmut Bank, N.A. v. Wayman	606 N.E.2d 925	41
1988	Gage v. City of Westfield	532 N.E.2d 62	41
1988	Multi Technology, Inc. v. Mitchell Management Systems, Inc.	518 N.E.2d 854	40
1990	Boudreau v. Coleman	564 N.E.2d 1	34
1990	Krasnow v. Allen	562 N.E.2d 1375	34
1990	Noyes v. Raymond	548 N.E.2d 196	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 212 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 Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Edith W. Fine on?: Edith W. Fine was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

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