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 1930 / Served to 1950

George W. Maxey

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

George W. Maxey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1950
Tenure: 1930–1950 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of the Pacific

Judicial Record

In our data, Maxey authored 783 published opinions for the court (1927–1950), plus 64 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Watkins v. Prudential Insurance (187 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. 21 of these were attributed to Maxey 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
1934	Watkins v. Prudential Insurance	173 A. 644	187
1941	Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe	21 A.2d 920	179
1940	Maio v. Fahs	14 A.2d 105	173
1946	Commonwealth v. New	47 A.2d 450	157
1937	Commonwealth v. Strantz	195 A. 75	136
1943	Smith v. Glen Alden Coal Co.	32 A.2d 227	125
1949	Kline v. Harrisburg	68 A.2d 182	120
1945	Commonwealth v. Harris	41 A.2d 688	120
1937	Commonwealth v. Fugmann	198 A. 99	116
1936	Young Mens Christian Assoc. of Germantown v. Phila.	187 A. 204	113
1949	Commonwealth v. Almeida	68 A.2d 595	111
1945	Maize v. Atlantic Refining Co.	41 A.2d 850	110
1938	Commonwealth v. Flax	200 A. 632	108
1946	Commonwealth v. Malone	47 A.2d 445	106
1949	Commonwealth Ex Rel. Children's Aid Society v. Gard	66 A.2d 300	105

Showing the 15 most-cited of 868 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 George W. Maxey on?: George W. Maxey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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20 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).