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Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1943 / Served to 1960

Lee R. Wyatt

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Lee R. Wyatt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1960
Tenure: 1943–1960 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wyatt authored 650 published opinions for the court (1943–1960), plus 19 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Woodside v. City of Atlanta (91 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. 194 of these were attributed to Wyatt 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
1958	Woodside v. City of Atlanta· Dissent†	103 S.E.2d 108	91
1949	Orkin Ex. Co. Inc., So. Georgia v. Dewberry	51 S.E.2d 669	78
1945	Thornton v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.	32 S.E.2d 816	68
1943	Pulliam v. State	28 S.E.2d 139	65
1952	Sheffield v. State School Bldg. Authority· Concurrence†	68 S.E.2d 590	60
1948	Ingram v. State	48 S.E.2d 891	59
1946	Wheeler v. Board of Trustees of Fargo Consolidated School District	37 S.E.2d 322	57
1951	Calvary Independent Baptist Church v. City of Rome· Dissent†	66 S.E.2d 726	55
1947	Stillson v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America	42 S.E.2d 121	54
1959	Walker v. State	109 S.E.2d 748	45
1954	Williams v. State	665 S.E.2d 217	45
1953	HOUSING AUTHORITY &C. v. Johnson	74 S.E.2d 891	45
1952	Avery v. State· Dissent†	70 S.E.2d 716	44
1946	Hill v. Rivers	37 S.E.2d 386	44
1949	Arnold v. Walton	54 S.E.2d 424	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 680 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 Lee R. Wyatt on?: Lee R. Wyatt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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17 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).