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Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1960 / Served to 1966

Joseph D. Quillian

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Joseph D. Quillian was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1960. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1968
Tenure: 1960–1966 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–
1960	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University

Judicial Record

In our data, Quillian authored 705 published opinions for the court (1953–1966), plus 22 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Bowers v. Fulton County (126 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. 252 of these were attributed to Quillian 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
1966	Bowers v. Fulton County	146 S.E.2d 884	126
1966	Roach v. State· Dissent†	147 S.E.2d 299	81
1960	Cook v. Robinson	116 S.E.2d 742	79
1966	Evans v. State· Dissent†	150 S.E.2d 240	68
1966	Williams v. State· Dissent†	149 S.E.2d 449	56
1962	Whippler v. State	126 S.E.2d 744	54
1954	Rogers v. Atlanta Enterprises, Inc.	81 S.E.2d 721	52
1958	Emory University v. Lee	104 S.E.2d 234	51
1961	Reserve Life Insurance Co. v. Ayers	121 S.E.2d 649	47
1962	Eason v. State	125 S.E.2d 488	46
1957	Knudsen v. Duffee-Freeman, Inc.	99 S.E.2d 370	46
1965	Massey v. State	142 S.E.2d 832	45
1955	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Clements	88 S.E.2d 809	45
1966	Gibson v. Hodges	147 S.E.2d 329	44
1963	Chance v. Planters Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.	131 S.E.2d 541	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 747 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 Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Joseph D. Quillian on?: Joseph D. Quillian was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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