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

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1956 / Served to 1975

Joseph Rodney Moss

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Joseph Rodney Moss was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1903 · age 123
Tenure: 1956–1975 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moss authored 578 published opinions for the court (1954–1984), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Laird v. Nationwide Insurance (96 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. 77 of these were attributed to Moss 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
1964	Laird v. Nationwide Insurance	134 S.E.2d 206	96
1962	Fuller v. Eastern Fire & Casualty Insurance	124 S.E.2d 602	87
1973	Mathis v. South Carolina State Highway Department	195 S.E.2d 713	86
1969	Young v. Warr	165 S.E.2d 797	80
1971	Addy v. Bolton	183 S.E.2d 708	68
1967	Jacobson v. Yaschik	155 S.E.2d 601	62
1967	Powers v. Temple· Dissent†	156 S.E.2d 759	61
1959	State v. BRITT	111 S.E.2d 669	61
1975	Smith v. Smith	216 S.E.2d 541	59
1962	Matthews v. Porter	124 S.E.2d 321	57
1962	Bruce v. Blalock	127 S.E.2d 439	56
1956	Bramlett v. Young	93 S.E.2d 873	55
1971	Gray v. Southern Facilities, Inc.	183 S.E.2d 438	53
1975	Carolina Land Company, Inc. v. Bland	217 S.E.2d 16	52
1968	Stone v. Bethea	161 S.E.2d 171	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 584 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Joseph Rodney Moss on?: Joseph Rodney Moss was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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