How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1926 / Served to 1934

Eugene Satterwhite Blease

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Eugene Satterwhite Blease was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1926. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1963
Tenure: 1926–1934 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1926	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Blease authored 442 published opinions for the court (1926–1934), plus 9 dissents and 64 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Richards v. Moorer (73 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. 8 of these were attributed to Blease 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
1929	State Ex Rel. Richards v. Moorer· Dissent	150 S.E. 269	73
1930	State v. King	155 S.E. 409	69
1929	State v. Francis	149 S.E. 348	66
1927	Johnson v. Atlantic Coast Line R.	140 S.E. 443	58
1927	Duncan v. the Record Publishing Co.	143 S.E. 31	51
1929	McCutchen v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins.	151 S.E. 67	46
1933	Lawrence v. Southern Railway, Carolina Div.	167 S.E. 839	40
1926	State v. Hester	134 S.E. 885	40
1930	United States Casualty Co. v. State Highway Department	151 S.E. 887	39
1930	State v. Rector	155 S.E. 385	38
1928	Barrett v. Broad River Power Company	143 S.E. 650	34
1928	Wingfield v. South Carolina Tax Commission· Concurrence	144 S.E. 846	33
1926	State v. Sellers	134 S.E. 873	30
1926	Kirton v. Howard	134 S.E. 859	30
1933	Farrow v. City Council of Charleston	168 S.E. 852	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 516 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Eugene Satterwhite Blease on?: Eugene Satterwhite Blease was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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