How do judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia / Joined 1958 / Served to 1972

Harlan M. Calhoun

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Harlan M. Calhoun was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1977
Tenure: 1958–1972 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Calhoun authored 216 published opinions for the court (1958–1972), plus 45 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co. (213 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. 112 of these were attributed to Calhoun 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
1962	Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co.†	128 S.E.2d 626	213
1965	Barnett v. Wolfolk	140 S.E.2d 466	204
1965	State Ex Rel. Appalachian Power Co. v. Gainer	143 S.E.2d 351	172
1966	Morgan v. Price	150 S.E.2d 897	157
1968	Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc.	159 S.E.2d 784	116
1969	State Ex Rel. West Virginia Housing Development Fund v. Copenhaver	171 S.E.2d 545	97
1964	Hatten v. Mason Realty Company	135 S.E.2d 236	93
1966	State v. Riley· Dissent†	151 S.E.2d 308	91
1965	Morgan v. Grace Hospital, Inc.	144 S.E.2d 156	84
1971	Mowery v. Hitt	181 S.E.2d 334	83
1965	Dunlap v. State Compensation Director	140 S.E.2d 448	80
1960	Farley v. Graney	119 S.E.2d 833	76
1970	State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood· Dissent†	175 S.E.2d 482	75
1959	Bond v. Bond	109 S.E.2d 16	71
1968	Perdue v. SJ Groves and Sons Company	161 S.E.2d 250	70

Showing the 15 most-cited of 269 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 Appeals of West Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Harlan M. Calhoun on?: Harlan M. Calhoun was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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