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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 2003 / Served to 2014

Jack B. Jacobs

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Jack B. Jacobs was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 2003–2014 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jacobs authored 141 published opinions for the court (2003–2022), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Nemec v. Shrader (620 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. 131 of these were attributed to Jacobs 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
2010	Nemec v. Shrader· Dissent†	991 A.2d 1120	620
2009	Gantler v. Stephens†	965 A.2d 695	244
2013	Winshall v. Viacom International Inc.†	76 A.3d 808	232
2008	Wood v. Baum†	953 A.2d 136	220
2012	Alta Berkeley VI C v. v. Omneon, Inc.†	41 A.3d 381	159
2006	Gentile v. Rossette†	906 A.2d 91	149
2005	DCV Holdings, Inc. v. ConAgra, Inc.†	889 A.2d 954	140
2010	ASDI, INC. v. Beard Research, Inc.†	11 A.3d 749	134
2005	Montgomery Cellular Holding Co. v. Dobler†	880 A.2d 206	127
2004	Candlewood Timber Group, LLC v. Pan American Energy, LLC†	859 A.2d 989	112
2013	Bhole, Inc. v. Shore Investments, Inc.†	67 A.3d 444	101
2006	Dover Historical Society, Inc. v. City of Dover Planning Commission†	902 A.2d 1084	93
2009	Whittington v. Dragon Group, L.L.C.· Dissent†	991 A.2d 1	88
2014	Klaassen v. Allegro Development Corp.†	106 A.3d 1035	78
2011	Genger v. TR INVESTORS, LLC†	26 A.3d 180	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Jack B. Jacobs on?: Jack B. Jacobs was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

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