How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1938 / Served to 1956

Edward S. Delaplaine II

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Edward S. Delaplaine II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1938. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1989
Tenure: 1938–1956 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1938	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Washington and Lee University

Judicial Record

In our data, Delaplaine authored 376 published opinions for the court (1939–1976), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Neuenschwander v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (111 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. 158 of these were attributed to Delaplaine 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
1946	Neuenschwander v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission	48 A.2d 593	111
1956	Pressman v. Barnes†	121 A.2d 816	105
1941	Vincent v. Palmer	19 A.2d 183	100
1946	Heath v. M. C.C. of Baltimore	49 A.2d 799	99
1950	Cassel v. Mayor of Baltimore†	73 A.2d 486	92
1943	Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Messenger	29 A.2d 653	88
1954	Comptroller of Treasury v. M. E. Rockhill, Inc.†	107 A.2d 93	87
1946	Dougherty v. Dougherty	48 A.2d 451	86
1946	Corens v. State	45 A.2d 340	86
1944	Le Vonas v. Acme Paper Board Co.	40 A.2d 43	85
1952	Ross v. Pick†	86 A.2d 463	83
1944	McKeever v. Washington Heights Realty Corp.	37 A.2d 305	83
1941	Berger v. State	20 A.2d 146	79
1951	Edwards v. State†	81 A.2d 631	78
1948	Kennedy v. Crouch	62 A.2d 582	78

Showing the 15 most-cited of 379 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 Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Edward S. Delaplaine II on?: Edward S. Delaplaine II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

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