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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1967 / Served to 1981

Hiram K. Undercofler

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Hiram K. Undercofler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1998
Tenure: 1967–1981 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Undercofler authored 1,020 published opinions for the court (1967–1981), plus 54 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Estevez (236 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. 434 of these were attributed to Undercofler 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
1974	State v. Estevez	206 S.E.2d 475	236
1980	Hance v. State	268 S.E.2d 339	158
1978	Moore v. State	243 S.E.2d 1	150
1975	Center Chemical Co. v. Parzini	218 S.E.2d 580	141
1975	Chenault v. State	215 S.E.2d 223	134
1974	House v. State	205 S.E.2d 217	125
1971	Pass v. State	182 S.E.2d 779	117
1978	Stephens v. Hopper· Concurrence†	247 S.E.2d 92	101
1977	Drake v. State· Concurrence†	236 S.E.2d 748	101
1974	State v. Swift	207 S.E.2d 459	97
1973	Wade v. State· Concurrence†	200 S.E.2d 271	96
1969	Bourn v. Herring	166 S.E.2d 89	92
1980	Huggins v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company	264 S.E.2d 191	90
1975	Mitchell v. State	214 S.E.2d 900	90
1979	Harley-Davidson Motor Co. v. Daniel	260 S.E.2d 20	89

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,093 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 Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Hiram K. Undercofler on?: Hiram K. Undercofler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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