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Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1969 / Served to 1972

Jule Wimberly Felton Sr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Jule Wimberly Felton Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1969. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1978
Tenure: 1969–1972 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–
1969	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University
Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Felton authored 2,220 published opinions for the court (1937–1971), plus 414 dissents and 224 concurrences. Most cited: McCarty v. National Life & Accident Insurance (213 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. 1,316 of these were attributed to Felton 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
1962	McCarty v. National Life & Accident Insurance· Concurrence†	129 S.E.2d 408	213
1971	Bell v. State	183 S.E.2d 357	122
1969	Chandler v. Gately· Concurrence†	167 S.E.2d 697	97
1953	Brown v. Georgia-Tennessee Coaches, Inc.	77 S.E.2d 24	82
1950	Studebaker Corporation v. Nail	62 S.E.2d 198	73
1962	Loftin v. United States Fire Insurance· Dissent†	127 S.E.2d 53	70
1966	Hardwick v. Price	152 S.E.2d 905	66
1971	Giordano v. Stubbs· Dissent†	184 S.E.2d 165	65
1971	Crowder v. Department of State Parks· Dissent†	185 S.E.2d 908	63
1970	CHRYSLER MOTORS CORPORATION v. Davis	173 S.E.2d 691	63
1968	Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Lester	165 S.E.2d 587	62
1971	Watson v. State	182 S.E.2d 446	61
1968	Hunter v. A-1 Bonding Service, Inc.· Dissent†	164 S.E.2d 246	61
1960	Roberts v. King	116 S.E.2d 885	61
1971	Morris v. State· Dissent†	184 S.E.2d 82	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,862 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 Jule Wimberly Felton Sr. on?: Jule Wimberly Felton Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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3 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).