How do judges of the Supreme Court of Delaware reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1963 / Served to 1974

James B. Carey

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

James B. Carey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1963–1974 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carey authored 90 published opinions for the court (1949–1976), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Pittman v. State (79 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. 80 of these were attributed to Carey 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
1973	Pittman v. State†	301 A.2d 509	79
1974	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Johnson†	320 A.2d 345	66
1964	Yarrington v. Thornburg†	205 A.2d 1	66
1973	J. I. Kislak Mortgage Corp. v. William Matthews, Builder, Inc.†	303 A.2d 648	64
1974	Continental Casualty Co. v. Alexis I. duPont School District†	317 A.2d 101	44
1966	Phillips v. Delaware Power & Light Company	216 A.2d 281	41
1970	Bland v. State†	263 A.2d 286	36
1974	Hughes Tool Company v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.	315 A.2d 577	35
1973	Sonne v. Sacks†	314 A.2d 194	34
1967	Walsh v. Hotel Corporation of America· Separate†	231 A.2d 458	34
1972	Robinson v. State†	291 A.2d 279	30
1974	Fanning v. Superior Court of the State of Delaware Ex Rel. New Castle County†	320 A.2d 343	29
1973	Peters v. Gelb†	314 A.2d 901	27
1964	Laskowski v. Wallis†	205 A.2d 825	26
1971	Hamilton v. State†	285 A.2d 807	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 92 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 James B. Carey on?: James B. Carey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

Sources

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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).