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Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1932 / Served to 1952

Hugh James MacIntyre

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Hugh James MacIntyre was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1932. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1956
Tenure: 1932–1952 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1932	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Virginia Military Institute
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, MacIntyre authored 1,904 published opinions for the court (1932–1952), plus 74 dissents and 72 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. Ragsdale Motor Co. (81 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. 1,050 of these were attributed to MacIntyre 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
1941	Brown v. Ragsdale Motor Co.	16 S.E.2d 176	81
1941	Cone v. Davis	17 S.E.2d 849	75
1940	Pilgrim v. Landham	11 S.E.2d 420	70
1941	Hodges v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.	18 S.E.2d 28	68
1948	Loomis v. State	51 S.E.2d 13	65
1941	McCrory Stores Corporation v. Ahern	15 S.E.2d 797	63
1938	Wren v. State†	57 Ga. App. 641	62
1936	Cook v. Southern Railway Co.· Dissent†	53 Ga. App. 723	61
1934	Huckabee v. Grace†	48 Ga. App. 621	61
1950	Conney v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp.	58 S.E.2d 559	55
1937	Cain v. State†	55 Ga. App. 376	54
1949	Giles v. Smith	56 S.E.2d 860	49
1943	Whitaker v. Jones, McDougald, Smith, Pew Co.	26 S.E.2d 545	48
1940	Aycock v. State	10 S.E.2d 84	48
1938	Daniels v. State†	58 Ga. App. 599	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,056 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 Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Hugh James MacIntyre on?: Hugh James MacIntyre was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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