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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1916 / Served to 1931

Emory A. Walling

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Emory A. Walling was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1916. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1855–1931
Tenure: 1916–1931 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1916	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Allegheny College

Judicial Record

In our data, Walling authored 688 published opinions for the court (1916–1931), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Gausman v. R. T. Pearson Co. (119 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. 366 of these were attributed to Walling 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
1925	Gausman v. R. T. Pearson Co.	131 A. 247	119
1930	Belmont Laboratories, Inc. v. Heist	151 A. 15	111
1929	Commonwealth v. Daven	148 A. 524	104
1921	King Et Al., Appellants, v. Brillhart	271 Pa. 301	81
1920	Fuel City Mfg. Co. v. Waynesburg Products Corp.†	268 Pa. 441	77
1921	Lessig v. Reading Transit & Light Co.†	270 Pa. 299	76
1930	Snyder's Case	152 A. 33	72
1926	Nacrelli v. Nacrelli	136 A. 228	72
1922	Kinter v. Commonwealth Trust Co.†	274 Pa. 436	72
1931	Commonwealth v. Del Giorno	154 A. 788	68
1916	Sloan's Estate†	254 Pa. 346	68
1930	Knox v. Simmerman	151 A. 678	66
1927	Romberger v. Romberger	139 A. 159	63
1924	Mauchline v. State Insurance Fund†	279 Pa. 524	60
1931	MacDonald v. Metropolitan Life Insurance	155 A. 491	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 689 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Emory A. Walling on?: Emory A. Walling was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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