How do judges of the Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1978 / Served to 1994

Henry R. Horsey

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Henry R. Horsey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1994 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Horsey authored 157 published opinions for the court (1978–1994), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc. (456 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. 159 of these were attributed to Horsey 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
1994	Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc.†	634 A.2d 345	456
1985	Smith v. Van Gorkom†	488 A.2d 858	428
1991	Levine v. Smith†	591 A.2d 194	325
1988	Grobow v. Perot†	539 A.2d 180	295
1985	E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Shell Oil Co.†	498 A.2d 1108	253
1981	Olney v. Cooch†	425 A.2d 610	251
1993	Desert Equities, Inc. v. Morgan Stanley Leveraged Equity Fund, II, L.P.†	624 A.2d 1199	243
1988	Kramer v. Western Pacific Industries, Inc.†	546 A.2d 348	231
1989	Stroud v. Milliken Entersprises, Inc.†	552 A.2d 476	160
1992	Mayes v. State†	604 A.2d 839	158
1984	Lewis v. Anderson†	477 A.2d 1040	156
1979	Michelson v. Duncan†	407 A.2d 211	142
1988	Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc.†	542 A.2d 1182	127
1991	Robertson v. State†	596 A.2d 1345	124
1990	Paramount Communications, Inc. v. Time Inc.†	571 A.2d 1140	105

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Henry R. Horsey on?: Henry R. Horsey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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