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 1957 / Served to 1970

Herbert B. Cohen

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Herbert B. Cohen was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (7 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1900 · age 126
Tenure: 1957–1970 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Cohen authored 575 published opinions for the court (1957–1970), plus 211 dissents and 62 concurrences. Most cited: Webb v. Zern (513 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. 848 of these were attributed to Cohen 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
1966	Webb v. Zern†	422 Pa. 424	513
1957	Morgan's Home Equipment Corp. v. Martucci†	390 Pa. 618	267
1963	Gedeon v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance†	410 Pa. 55	234
1958	Commonwealth v. Redline· Concurrence†	391 Pa. 486	229
1965	National Land & Investment Co. v. Easttown Township Board of Adjustment· Dissent†	419 Pa. 504	226
1970	CIPOLLA v. Shaposka†	439 Pa. 563	220
1968	Kassab v. Soya· Concurrence†	432 Pa. 217	208
1963	Daly v. Hemphill· Dissent†	411 Pa. 263	184
1965	Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital· Concurrence†	417 Pa. 486	182
1965	Evans v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.· Dissent†	418 Pa. 567	180
1959	Commonwealth v. Koczwara†	397 Pa. 575	173
1968	Barrett v. Otis Elevator Co.· Dissent†	431 Pa. 446	168
1964	Commonwealth v. Coyle· Dissent†	415 Pa. 379	166
1960	Erie Forge & Steel Corp. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	400 Pa. 440	165
1958	Montgomery v. Philadelphia†	392 Pa. 178	151

Showing the 15 most-cited of 848 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 Herbert B. Cohen on?: Herbert B. Cohen was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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13 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).