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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1956 / Served to 1973

Joseph Weintraub

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Joseph Weintraub was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1977
Tenure: 1956–1973 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Cornell University
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Weintraub authored 237 published opinions for the court (1957–1973), plus 15 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: State v. MacOn (857 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. 48 of these were attributed to Weintraub 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
1971	State v. MacOn	273 A.2d 1	857
1962	Goldberg v. Housing Auth. of City of Newark	186 A.2d 291	316
1973	Robinson v. Cahill	303 A.2d 273	306
1973	Busik v. Levine	307 A.2d 571	280
1970	Burd v. Sussex Mutual Insurance Company	267 A.2d 7	220
1963	City of New Brunswick v. State of New Jersey Division of Tax Appeals	189 A.2d 702	215
1960	Krauth v. Israel Geller and Buckingham Homes, Inc.	157 A.2d 129	199
1966	State v. Rush	217 A.2d 441	193
1959	State v. Lucas· Concurrence†	152 A.2d 50	182
1968	Cooper v. Government Employees Insurance	237 A.2d 870	178
1957	Kozesnik v. Township of Montgomery	131 A.2d 1	176
1962	MERCHANTS IND. CORP., OF NY v. Eggleston	179 A.2d 505	169
1972	State v. Hampton· Dissent†	294 A.2d 23	156
1964	State v. Burnett	201 A.2d 39	156
1972	New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority v. McCrane· Concurrence†	292 A.2d 545	153

Showing the 15 most-cited of 275 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 Weintraub on?: Joseph Weintraub was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).