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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1929 / Served to 1948

Joseph Lamb Bodine

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Joseph Lamb Bodine was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1929. He earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1908. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1950
Tenure: 1929–1948 · 19 yrs
Education: Princeton 1905 · Harvard

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1929	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Princeton University	A.B.	1905
Harvard University	LL.B.	1908

Judicial Record

In our data, Bodine authored 59 published opinions for the court (1929–1948). Most cited: Stager v. Junker (20 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. 59 of these were attributed to Bodine 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
1936	Stager v. Junker†	14 N.J. Misc. 913	20
1932	Coulter v. New Jersey Pulverizing Co.†	11 N.J. Misc. 5	14
1935	Van Meter v. E. R. Morehouse, Inc.†	13 N.J. Misc. 558	10
1936	Payne v. Borough of Sea Bright†	14 N.J. Misc. 756	8
1930	Buermann v. Morris†	8 N.J. Misc. 811	6
1934	Sweet v. Austin Co.†	12 N.J. Misc. 381	5
1933	State v. Dart†	11 N.J. Misc. 192	4
1939	Eastern Speedways, Inc. v. Hamilton Trust Co.†	8 A.2d 297	3
1936	State ex rel. Phelps v. Borough of Fort Lee†	14 N.J. Misc. 895	3
1936	Federal Schools, Inc. v. Sidden†	14 N.J. Misc. 892	3
1936	Urban v. Taylor†	14 N.J. Misc. 887	3
1936	Matthews v. Township of Woodbridge†	14 N.J. Misc. 143	3
1931	Newell v. Workmen's Compensation Bureau†	9 N.J. Misc. 1123	3
1930	In re Election for Mayor†	9 N.J. Misc. 25	3
1936	Marx v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.†	14 N.J. Misc. 812	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 59 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 New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Joseph Lamb Bodine on?: Joseph Lamb Bodine was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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