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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1903 / Served to 1903

James Houston Price

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

James Houston Price was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1903. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1861–1947
Tenure: 1903–1903

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1903	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Price authored 14 published opinions for the court (1903). Most cited: Blau v. State (18 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. 14 of these were attributed to Price 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
1903	Blau v. State†	82 Miss. 514	18
1903	Mackmasters v. State†	82 Miss. 459	9
1903	Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. White†	82 Miss. 120	7
1903	Vicksburg Railroad, Power & Manufacturing Co. v. White†	82 Miss. 468	4
1903	Rogers v. State†	82 Miss. 479	4
1903	Stone v. Heggie†	82 Miss. 410	3
1903	Butts v. Ricks†	82 Miss. 533	3
1903	Hammel v. Atkinson†	82 Miss. 465	2
1903	Johnson v. Jones†	82 Miss. 483	2
1903	Shaw v. Woffard†	82 Miss. 143	1
1903	State v. Mortimer†	82 Miss. 443	1
1903	Short v. State†	82 Miss. 473	1
1903	Thomas v. Romano†	82 Miss. 256	0
1903	Fooshee v. State†	82 Miss. 509	0

Showing the 14 most-cited of 14 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 Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was James Houston Price on?: James Houston Price was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1903. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).