How do judges of the Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1957

Edmund Flynn

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Edmund Flynn was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1957
Tenure: 1935–1957 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Flynn authored 406 published opinions for the court (1935–1957), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Supreme Woodworking Co. v. Zuckerberg (36 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. 52 of these were attributed to Flynn 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
1954	Supreme Woodworking Co. v. Zuckerberg	107 A.2d 287	36
1950	R. I. Home Builders, Inc. v. Budlong Rose Co.	74 A.2d 237	24
1936	State v. Smith	184 A. 494	24
1950	Flynn v. Zoning Board of Review	73 A.2d 808	23
1954	Ciallella v. Ciallella	103 A.2d 77	22
1951	Harding v. Carr	83 A.2d 79	21
1939	Di Libero v. Middlesex Construction Co.	9 A.2d 858	18
1952	Reynolds v. Reynolds†	85 A.2d 565	17
1953	Bryce v. Jackson Diners Corp.	96 A.2d 637	15
1955	Caccia v. Zoning Board of Review	113 A.2d 870	14
1955	Lombardi v. California Packing Sales Company	112 A.2d 701	14
1954	State v. Jorjorian	107 A.2d 468	14
1954	State v. Nadeau	105 A.2d 194	14
1953	Cutroneo v. Cutroneo	98 A.2d 921	14
1946	Strauss v. Zoning Board of Review	48 A.2d 349	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 408 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Edmund Flynn on?: Edmund Flynn was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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