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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1972 / Served to 1978

Irving A. Levine

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Irving A. Levine was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–1978
Tenure: 1972–1978 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Levine authored 136 published opinions for the court (1972–1978), plus 20 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Wilhelm v. State (259 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. 155 of these were attributed to Levine 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	Wilhelm v. State· Dissent†	326 A.2d 707	259
1976	Ross v. State†	350 A.2d 680	201
1976	Jacron Sales Co. v. Sindorf†	350 A.2d 688	187
1977	Sard v. Hardy†	379 A.2d 1014	164
1978	Maryland Metals, Inc. v. Metzner†	382 A.2d 564	122
1975	H & R BLOCK, INC. v. Testerman†	338 A.2d 48	111
1977	MPC, Inc. v. Kenny†	367 A.2d 486	107
1977	Mazor v. State, Dep't of Correction†	369 A.2d 82	106
1973	Kasten Construction Co. v. Rod Enterprises, Inc.	301 A.2d 12	104
1978	Bowers v. State†	389 A.2d 341	103
1976	Barry Properties v. Fick Bros. Roofing Co.· Dissent†	353 A.2d 222	103
1977	McKnight v. State†	375 A.2d 551	101
1978	Johnson v. State†	384 A.2d 709	98
1973	Smith v. Gray Concrete Pipe Co.†	297 A.2d 721	96
1978	Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission v. Washington National Arena†	282 Md. 588	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 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 Irving A. Levine on?: Irving A. Levine was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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6 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).