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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2008 / Served to 2009

Jane Cutler Greenspan

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Jane Cutler Greenspan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1958 · age 68
Tenure: 2008–2009 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Smith College

Judicial Record

In our data, Greenspan authored 33 published opinions for the court (2008–2009), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Sherwood (442 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. 41 of these were attributed to Greenspan 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
2009	Commonwealth v. Sherwood†	982 A.2d 483	442
2009	Commonwealth v. Cox†	983 A.2d 666	290
2008	Commonwealth v. Stokes†	959 A.2d 306	263
2009	Commonwealth v. Thompson†	985 A.2d 928	257
2009	Commonwealth v. Baldwin†	985 A.2d 830	252
2009	Commonwealth v. Segida· Concurrence†	985 A.2d 871	185
2009	Commonwealth v. Liston†	977 A.2d 1089	182
2009	Commonwealth v. Fletcher†	986 A.2d 759	172
2009	Commonwealth v. Montalvo†	986 A.2d 84	168
2009	Commonwealth v. Miller†	987 A.2d 638	162
2008	Commonwealth v. Clark†	961 A.2d 80	154
2009	Steiner v. Markel†	968 A.2d 1253	143
2009	Rendell v. Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission· Concurrence†	983 A.2d 708	109
2009	Maloney v. VALLEY MEDICAL FACILITIES, INC.· Concurrence†	984 A.2d 478	98
2008	Commonwealth v. McMullen· Concurrence†	961 A.2d 842	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Jane Cutler Greenspan on?: Jane Cutler Greenspan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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