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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1954 / Served to 1964

Frederick W. Brune IV

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Frederick W. Brune IV was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1972
Tenure: 1954–1964 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brune authored 305 published opinions for the court (1954–1982), plus 9 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Brady v. State (112 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. 286 of these were attributed to Brune 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
1963	Brady v. State†	174 A.2d 167	112
1964	State Ex Rel. Odham v. Sherman	198 A.2d 71	98
1954	Compania De Astral, S. A. v. Boston Metals Co.†	107 A.2d 357	87
1959	Hewitt v. County Commissioners†	151 A.2d 144	73
1961	Smith v. Bernfeld†	174 A.2d 53	72
1963	Prescoe v. State· Dissent†	191 A.2d 226	68
1962	Shoemaker v. State†	180 A.2d 682	68
1960	Brown v. Fraley†	161 A.2d 128	66
1956	Givner v. State†	124 A.2d 764	65
1962	Seidman v. State†	187 A.2d 109	64
1960	Hall v. State†	162 A.2d 751	63
1960	Kellum v. State†	162 A.2d 473	58
1956	Whittle v. Board of Zoning Appeals†	125 A.2d 41	57
1961	Alston v. Forsythe†	172 A.2d 474	55
1956	Rinaudo v. Bloom†	120 A.2d 184	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 Frederick W. Brune IV on?: Frederick W. Brune IV was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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10 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).