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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1966

James E. Murphy

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

James E. Murphy was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1986
Tenure: 1957–1966 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Murphy authored 52 published opinions for the court (1957–1966), plus 11 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Triangle Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Silver (120 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. 62 of these were attributed to Murphy 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
1966	Triangle Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Silver· Concurrence†	154 Conn. 116	120
1966	State v. Tomanelli· Dissent†	153 Conn. 365	82
1965	Town of Lebanon v. Woods· Dissent†	153 Conn. 182	73
1961	Caporale v. C. W. Blakeslee & Sons, Inc.· Concurrence†	149 Conn. 79	66
1959	Palmieri v. MacEro	146 Conn. 705	60
1959	Fox v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	146 Conn. 665	47
1963	Roan v. Connecticut Industrial Building Commission†	150 Conn. 333	46
1963	State Ex Rel. Eastern Color Printing Co. v. Jenks	150 Conn. 444	39
1963	Misisco v. La Maita	150 Conn. 680	38
1966	Benz v. Walker· Concurrence†	154 Conn. 74	37
1965	Chanosky v. City Building Supply Co.· Dissent†	152 Conn. 449	36
1964	Blados v. Blados· Dissent†	151 Conn. 391	36
1958	Diamond Match Co. v. Crute	145 Conn. 277	31
1959	Feneck v. Nowakowski	146 Conn. 434	28
1958	State v. Tryon· Dissent†	145 Conn. 304	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 75 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 Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was James E. Murphy on?: James E. Murphy was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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