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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1954 / Served to 1959

Edward James Daly

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Edward James Daly was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1892 · age 134
Tenure: 1954–1959 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Daly authored 170 published opinions for the court (1944–1983), plus 8 dissents. Most cited: Burnham v. Planning & Zoning Commission (285 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. 21 of these were attributed to Daly 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
1983	Burnham v. Planning & Zoning Commission	189 Conn. 261	285
1982	Goodrich v. Waterbury Republican-American, Inc.	188 Conn. 107	235
1958	State v. Sul	146 Conn. 78	103
1959	Turner v. Scanlon	146 Conn. 149	93
1954	Clark v. Haggard†	141 Conn. 668	86
1959	Burritt Mutual Savings Bank v. City of New Britain	146 Conn. 669	81
1959	Franks v. Lockwood	146 Conn. 273	78
1958	Clark v. Town Council	145 Conn. 476	75
1958	Tyler v. Board of Zoning Appeals	145 Conn. 655	74
1959	E. M. Loew's Enterprises, Inc. v. Surabian	146 Conn. 608	72
1959	Sturtevant v. Sturtevant	146 Conn. 644	69
1956	McAdams v. Barbieri· Dissent†	143 Conn. 405	69
1958	Gordon v. Zoning Board	145 Conn. 597	64
1958	Pecora v. Zoning Commission	145 Conn. 435	62
1959	National Folding Box Co. v. City of New Haven	146 Conn. 578	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 178 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 Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Edward James Daly on?: Edward James Daly was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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