How do judges of the Appellate Court of Maryland reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Appellate Court of Maryland / Joined 1973 / Served to 1982

John P. Moore

Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland

John P. Moore was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1973–1982 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Appellate Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 284 published opinions for the court (1973–1983), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, Inc. v. Esham (62 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. 117 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1979	Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, Inc. v. Esham†	406 A.2d 928	62
1981	Jensen v. American Motors Corp., Inc.†	437 A.2d 242	59
1981	Polk v. State	427 A.2d 1041	54
1980	American Home Assurance Co. v. Osbourn†	422 A.2d 8	52
1975	Gai Audio of New York, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.	340 A.2d 736	48
1982	Ward v. Ward	449 A.2d 443	47
1982	Jackson v. State†	449 A.2d 438	46
1980	Decker v. Fink	422 A.2d 389	46
1975	Nooe v. Mayor of Baltimore	345 A.2d 134	43
1979	Allentown Plaza Associates v. Suburban Propane Gas Corp.	405 A.2d 326	39
1980	Calhoun v. State†	418 A.2d 1241	38
1981	Resnick v. Kaplan†	434 A.2d 582	36
1976	Gardenvillage Realty Corp. v. Russo	366 A.2d 101	36
1974	Crest Investment Trust, Inc. v. Comstock	327 A.2d 891	36
1975	McCarty v. E. J. Korvette, Inc.	347 A.2d 253	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 287 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 Appellate Court of Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was John P. Moore on?: John P. Moore was a Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland.

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