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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of North Carolina / Joined 1818 / Served to 1829

John Louis Taylor

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

John Louis Taylor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1818. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1769–1829
Tenure: 1818–1829 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1818	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 487 published opinions for the court (1800–1828), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State v. . Roberts (75 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. 16 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1827	State v. . Roberts	12 N.C. 259	75
1819	Cherry v. Slade's Administrator	7 N.C. 82	57
1822	Doe on Demise of Campbell v. Doe	9 N.C. 33	31
1819	State v. . Arrington· Separate	7 N.C. 571	18
1814	State v. . Yancy	4 N.C. 133	17
1810	State v. . Owen	5 N.C. 452	16
1828	In Re Spier· Separate	12 N.C. 491	15
1825	State v. Pettaway.	10 N.C. 623	14
1827	State v. . Younger	12 N.C. 357	13
1822	State v. Twitty· Separate	9 N.C. 248	12
1822	Executors of Reel v. Reel	9 N.C. 63	12
1820	State v. . Tackett	8 N.C. 210	12
1826	State v. . Orrell· Separate	12 N.C. 139	11
1814	Jones v. . Crittenden	4 N.C. 55	11
1826	State v. . Negro Jim· Separate	12 N.C. 142	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 542 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 North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was John Louis Taylor on?: John Louis Taylor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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