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Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 2004 / Former Justice

Henry du Pont Ridgely

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Henry du Pont Ridgely was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Education

Syracuse University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ridgely authored 229 published opinions for the court (2004–2015), plus 11 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. American Legacy Foundation (414 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. 149 of these were attributed to Ridgely 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
2006	Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. American Legacy Foundation†	903 A.2d 728	414
2012	GMG Capital Investments, LLC v. Athenian Venture Partners I†	36 A.3d 776	361
2005	Dunlap v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.· Concurrence†	878 A.2d 434	338
2005	Aeroglobal Capital Management, LLC v. Cirrus Industries, Inc.†	871 A.2d 428	205
2009	Paul v. Deloitte & Touche, LLP†	974 A.2d 140	137
2009	Cooke v. State†	977 A.2d 803	132
2009	Reid v. Spazio†	970 A.2d 176	127
2007	LeVan v. Independence Mall, Inc.†	940 A.2d 929	120
2005	Kaung v. Cole National Corp.†	884 A.2d 500	117
2008	Lopez-Vazquez v. State†	956 A.2d 1280	105
2014	Hoskins v. State	102 A.3d 724	89
2010	Ingres Corp. v. CA, INC.†	8 A.3d 1143	85
2005	Pavulak v. State†	880 A.2d 1044	83
2005	Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc.†	884 A.2d 26	83
2008	Schoon v. Smith†	953 A.2d 196	78

Showing the 15 most-cited of 244 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 du Pont Ridgely on?: Henry du Pont Ridgely was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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22 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).