How do judges of the Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1975 / Served to 1979

Joseph S. Longo

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Joseph S. Longo was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1993
Tenure: 1975–1979 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Longo authored 26 published opinions for the court (1975–1979), plus 7 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Carpenter v. Planning & Zoning Commission (135 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. 29 of these were attributed to Longo 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	Carpenter v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	176 Conn. 581	135
1977	Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc.†	173 Conn. 567	121
1979	Kron v. Thelen†	178 Conn. 189	99
1979	Adzima v. UAC/Norden Division†	177 Conn. 107	79
1979	Connecticut Mobile Home Assn., Inc. v. Jensen's, Inc.	178 Conn. 586	67
1976	Pecker v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.†	171 Conn. 443	64
1979	McNamara v. Town of Hamden· Dissent†	176 Conn. 547	59
1975	Weingarten v. Allstate Insurance· Dissent†	169 Conn. 502	59
1977	Fasulo v. Arafeh†	173 Conn. 473	57
1978	State v. Miranda	176 Conn. 107	53
1975	Holmquist v. Manson†	168 Conn. 389	50
1979	Velardi v. Ryder Truck Rental, Inc.†	178 Conn. 371	46
1979	Tucker v. Board of Education†	177 Conn. 572	36
1979	State v. Moeller†	178 Conn. 67	35
1977	City of Norwich v. Norwich Fire Fighters· Dissent†	173 Conn. 210	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 34 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 Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Joseph S. Longo on?: Joseph S. Longo was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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