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 1936 / Served to 1956

Horace Stern

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Horace Stern was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1969
Tenure: 1936–1956 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Stern authored 818 published opinions for the court (1936–1956), plus 49 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Builders Supply Co. v. McCabe (315 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. 270 of these were attributed to Stern 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
1951	Builders Supply Co. v. McCabe†	366 Pa. 322	315
1947	Belovsky v. Redevelopment Authority	54 A.2d 277	203
1955	Commonwealth v. Wable†	382 Pa. 80	202
1954	Blumenschein v. Pittsburgh Housing Authority†	379 Pa. 566	200
1949	Foley v. the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Co.	68 A.2d 517	191
1950	SPIRES Et Ux. v. Hanover Fire Ins. Co.†	364 Pa. 52	184
1940	Mamlin v. Genoe	17 A.2d 407	157
1942	Commonwealth Ex Rel. Banks v. Cain	28 A.2d 897	156
1938	Dornan v. Philadelphia Housing Authority	200 A. 834	152
1955	Gardner v. Allegheny County· Concurrence†	382 Pa. 88	150
1937	Kline v. Moyer and Albert	191 A. 43	140
1942	Pezzulli v. D'Ambrosia	26 A.2d 659	137
1948	Carpentertown Coal & Coke Co. v. Laird	61 A.2d 426	136
1954	Wilson v. Maryland Casualty Co.†	377 Pa. 588	131
1948	Commonwealth v. Simmons	65 A.2d 353	129

Showing the 15 most-cited of 883 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 Horace Stern on?: Horace Stern was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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20 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).