How do judges of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1981 / Served to 2002

Joseph T. Doyle

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Joseph T. Doyle was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–2002 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Villanova University

Judicial Record

In our data, Doyle authored 1,694 published opinions for the court (1982–2002), plus 100 dissents and 69 concurrences. Most cited: Kirkwood v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV. (239 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. 1,482 of these were attributed to Doyle 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
1987	Kirkwood v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.	525 A.2d 841	239
2000	Griffiths v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board†	760 A.2d 72	72
1983	Vann v. Board of Education†	76 Pa. Commw. 604	68
1982	Waigand v. Commonwealth	68 Pa. Commw. 541	64
1987	Farber v. ENGLE	525 A.2d 864	62
1993	United States Postal Service v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review	620 A.2d 572	58
1987	Rhoads Et Ux. v. Lancaster Park. Auth.	520 A.2d 122	58
2001	Joe v. Prison Health Services, Inc.	782 A.2d 24	56
1993	McKeesport Hospital v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	625 A.2d 112	55
2000	Taylor v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole	746 A.2d 671	54
1993	Herr v. Lancaster County Planning Commission†	625 A.2d 164	52
1985	E-Z Parks, Inc. v. Larson†	91 Pa. Commw. 600	52
1984	Groch v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	81 Pa. Commw. 26	50
2002	Kurtz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Waynesburg College)	794 A.2d 443	44
1997	McKay v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board†	688 A.2d 259	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,863 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 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Joseph T. Doyle on?: Joseph T. Doyle was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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