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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of North Carolina / Joined 1942 / Served to 1966

Emery B. Denny

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Emery B. Denny was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1973
Tenure: 1942–1966 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Denny authored 969 published opinions for the court (1942–1966), plus 2 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hamilton (118 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. 122 of these were attributed to Denny 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
1965	State v. Hamilton	141 S.E.2d 506	118
1952	Honeycutt v. Carolina Asbestos Co.	70 S.E.2d 426	118
1963	Fuchs v. Fuchs	133 S.E.2d 487	93
1962	Vetco Concrete Company v. TROY LUMBER COMPANY	124 S.E.2d 905	89
1954	State v. Hammonds	85 S.E.2d 133	88
1954	State v. Mobley· Concurrence†	83 S.E.2d 100	81
1947	State v. . Davenport	42 S.E.2d 686	81
1955	Barnette v. Woody	88 S.E.2d 223	77
1950	State v. Perry	57 S.E.2d 774	74
1960	State v. Case	116 S.E.2d 429	72
1955	State v. Jones	89 S.E.2d 129	65
1957	City of Goldsboro v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.	97 S.E.2d 486	61
1947	State v. Davenport†	227 N.C. 475	61
1955	State v. Poolos	85 S.E.2d 342	58
1962	Brewer v. POWERS TRUCKING COMPANY	123 S.E.2d 608	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 978 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 North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Emery B. Denny on?: Emery B. Denny was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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