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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1990 / Served to 1999

Howard S. Chasanow

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Howard S. Chasanow was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1990–1999 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chasanow authored 181 published opinions for the court (1990–1999), plus 25 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Heat & Power Corp. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (268 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. 231 of these were attributed to Chasanow 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
1990	Heat & Power Corp. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.†	578 A.2d 1202	268
1999	COLOMIRIS v. Woods†	727 A.2d 358	239
1999	Ferris v. State· Dissent†	735 A.2d 491	231
1994	State v. Albrecht· Concurrence†	336 Md. 475	213
1992	Murphy v. Edmonds· Dissent†	601 A.2d 102	192
1999	Green v. H & R BLOCK, INC.†	735 A.2d 1039	181
1990	Hunt v. State†	583 A.2d 218	176
1994	Frost v. State†	336 Md. 125	157
1993	Ford v. State†	625 A.2d 984	157
1996	Coburn v. Coburn†	674 A.2d 951	149
1999	Conyers v. State†	729 A.2d 910	137
1996	Sheets v. Brethren Mutual Insurance†	679 A.2d 540	137
1995	American Motorists Insurance v. ARTRA Group, Inc.†	338 Md. 560	136
1991	Figueiredo-Torres v. Nickel†	321 Md. 642	123
1997	Ball v. State†	699 A.2d 1170	121

Showing the 15 most-cited of 231 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 Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Howard S. Chasanow on?: Howard S. Chasanow was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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