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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1985 / Served to 2002

Gary S. Stein

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Gary S. Stein was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1933 · age 93
Tenure: 1985–2002 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Duke University
Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Stein authored 233 published opinions for the court (1985–2002), plus 87 dissents and 84 concurrences. Most cited: Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan (2,534 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. 180 of these were attributed to Stein 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
1995	Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan· Concurrence†	658 A.2d 1230	2,534
1992	State v. Preciose	609 A.2d 1280	1,399
1997	State v. Marshall	690 A.2d 1	771
1995	Doe v. Poritz· Dissent†	662 A.2d 367	688
1995	Rendine v. Pantzer	661 A.2d 1202	642
1992	State v. Mitchell· Concurrence†	601 A.2d 198	472
1992	State v. Cofield· Concurrence†	605 A.2d 230	449
1991	State v. Marshall	586 A.2d 85	445
1987	State v. Novembrino	519 A.2d 820	387
1994	HOUSING AUTHORITY OF TOWN OF MORRISTOWN v. Little	639 A.2d 286	376
1999	State v. Timmendequas· Concurrence†	737 A.2d 55	325
1987	Ayers v. Township of Jackson	525 A.2d 287	310
1997	State v. Jordan· Dissent†	688 A.2d 97	303
1997	State v. McQuaid	688 A.2d 584	296
1992	Weichert Co. Realtors v. Ryan	608 A.2d 280	288

Showing the 15 most-cited of 404 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 New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Gary S. Stein on?: Gary S. Stein was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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