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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Rhode Island Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1965

Francis Condon

Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court

Francis Condon was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1965
Tenure: 1935–1965 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Rhode Island Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Condon authored 799 published opinions for the court (1935–1965), plus 48 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: R.I. Bar Asso. v. Auto. Service Asso. (102 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. 183 of these were attributed to Condon 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
1935	R.I. Bar Asso. v. Auto. Service Asso.	179 A. 139	102
1965	State v. Dufour	206 A.2d 82	56
1963	American Card Co. v. H. M. H. Co.	196 A.2d 150	56
1963	Kastal v. Hickory House, Inc.	187 A.2d 262	55
1935	Rhode Island Bar Ass'n v. Automobile Service Ass'n†	55 R.I. 122	53
1951	Payne v. Superior Court for Providence County	80 A.2d 159	38
1962	Foster v. Quigley	179 A.2d 494	32
1965	Henry v. John W. Eshelman & Sons	209 A.2d 46	31
1959	Cliftex Clothing Co. v. Di Santo	148 A.2d 273	31
1951	Sherman v. New York Casualty Co.	82 A.2d 839	31
1960	Newport Amusement Company v. Maher	166 A.2d 216	29
1948	Butler v. Richardson	60 A.2d 718	29
1961	Clements v. Tashjoin	168 A.2d 472	28
1946	Hackett v. Hyson	48 A.2d 353	26
1937	State v. Di Noi	195 A. 497	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 854 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 Rhode Island Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Francis Condon on?: Francis Condon was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

Sources

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