How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1927 / Served to 1943

Jesse F. Carter

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Jesse F. Carter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1927. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1873 · age 153
Tenure: 1927–1943 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1927	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carter authored 356 published opinions for the court (1927–1941), plus 76 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Chick Springs Water Co. v. State Highway Department (76 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. 10 of these were attributed to Carter 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
1931	Chick Springs Water Co. v. State Highway Department· Dissent	157 S.E. 842	76
1940	Boseman v. Pacific Mills	8 S.E.2d 878	37
1932	Johnson v. New York Life Insurance Co.· Dissent	164 S.E. 175	36
1932	Pardue v. Pardue	166 S.E. 101	35
1928	Barrett v. Broad River Power Company· Dissent	143 S.E. 650	34
1930	Piper v. American Fidelity & Casualty Co.· Concurrence	154 S.E. 106	33
1929	State Ex Rel. Daniel v. Broad River Power Co.	153 S.E. 537	33
1941	Yeomans v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.	15 S.E.2d 833	28
1941	State v. Heyward	15 S.E.2d 669	28
1937	Sample v. Gulf Refining Co.· Dissent	191 S.E. 209	28
1934	Nat'l Bank of Honea Path v. Barrett Co.· Dissent	174 S.E. 581	27
1931	Scroggie v. Scarborough, State Treasurer	160 S.E. 596	26
1930	Peden v. Furman University· Dissent	151 S.E. 907	25
1936	Hancock v. Aiken Mills, Inc.· Dissent	185 S.E. 188	24
1930	Branchville Motor Co. v. Adden· Dissent	155 S.E. 277	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 461 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Jesse F. Carter on?: Jesse F. Carter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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