How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1944 / Served to 1944

Levin C. Bailey

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Levin C. Bailey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1944–1944

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bailey authored 29 published opinions for the court (1943–1948). Most cited: Eisenhower v. Baltimore Transit Co. (56 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1948	Eisenhower v. Baltimore Transit Co.	59 A.2d 313	56
1943	Brenner v. Plitt	34 A.2d 853	54
1948	Glickman v. State	60 A.2d 216	49
1944	Murphy v. State	40 A.2d 239	49
1943	Gontrum v. Mayor of Baltimore	35 A.2d 128	48
1943	Boehm v. Boehm	34 A.2d 447	36
1944	Yellow Cab Co. v. Henderson	39 A.2d 546	31
1943	Smith v. State	32 A.2d 863	31
1948	Beck v. Baltimore Transit Co.	58 A.2d 909	28
1944	Lange v. Board of Education	37 A.2d 317	26
1948	Gianforte v. Board of License Commissioners	58 A.2d 902	25
1944	Dilley v. Baltimore Transit Co.	39 A.2d 469	21
1943	Ivrey v. Karr	34 A.2d 847	19
1944	Haile v. Dinnis	40 A.2d 363	18
1944	Evans v. Buchanan	38 A.2d 81	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 29 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 Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Levin C. Bailey on?: Levin C. Bailey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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Joined the court in 1944. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).