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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1988 / Served to 1989

Juanita Kidd Stout

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Juanita Kidd Stout was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–1998
Tenure: 1988–1989 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stout authored 16 published opinions for the court (1988–1989), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Hughes (237 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. 18 of these were attributed to Stout 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
1989	Commonwealth v. Hughes†	555 A.2d 1264	237
1989	Rizzo v. Haines†	555 A.2d 58	222
1989	Matter of Sylvester†	555 A.2d 1202	110
1988	Gene's Restaurant, Inc. v. Nationwide Insurance†	548 A.2d 246	97
1989	Commonwealth v. Frometa· Concurrence†	555 A.2d 92	85
1989	Commonwealth v. Grossman†	555 A.2d 896	76
1988	Fernandez v. Levin†	548 A.2d 1191	69
1989	Gall v. Allegheny County Health Department†	555 A.2d 786	65
1989	Commonwealth v. Khorey†	555 A.2d 100	41
1989	Commonwealth v. Brachbill· Dissent†	555 A.2d 82	36
1988	Jersey Shore Area School District v. Jersey Shore Education Ass'n†	548 A.2d 1202	36
1988	Commonwealth v. Uhrinek†	544 A.2d 947	27
1989	Stinner v. Stinner†	554 A.2d 45	26
1988	Globe Security Systems Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board†	544 A.2d 953	23
1989	Matter of Braig†	554 A.2d 493	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Juanita Kidd Stout on?: Juanita Kidd Stout was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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