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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1910 / Served to 1947

Grafton Green

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Grafton Green was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1910. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1872–1947
Tenure: 1910–1947 · 37 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1910	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Cumberland University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Green authored 803 published opinions for the court (1840–1947), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Schwartz v. Johnson (93 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. 226 of these were attributed to Green 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
1925	Schwartz v. Johnson	280 S.W. 32	93
1939	Bryan v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.	130 S.W.2d 85	78
1944	Lea Et Ux. v. State· Dissent	181 S.W.2d 351	76
1946	Woodroof v. City of Nashville	192 S.W.2d 1013	72
1935	National Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Follett	80 S.W.2d 92	70
1933	Magevney v. Karsch	65 S.W.2d 562	69
1912	State ex rel. Pitts v. Nashville Baseball Club†	127 Tenn. 292	63
1911	Sherman v. State†	125 Tenn. 19	60
1932	Ridley v. Haiman	47 S.W.2d 750	57
1922	Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. v. Campagna†	146 Tenn. 389	57
1933	Lingner v. Lingner	56 S.W.2d 749	56
1927	Scopes v. State	289 S.W. 363	55
1913	Philip Carey Roofing & Manufacturing Co. v. Black†	129 Tenn. 30	55
1934	Albert v. Sherman	67 S.W.2d 140	54
1927	Tennessee Central Railway Co. v. Umenstetter	291 S.W. 452	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 810 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 Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Grafton Green on?: Grafton Green was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

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