How do judges of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1944

Louis Cox

Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Louis Cox was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1961
Tenure: 1937–1944 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College

Judicial Record

In our data, Cox authored 346 published opinions for the court (1937–1943). Most cited: Commonwealth v. O'Brien (103 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. 346 of these were attributed to Cox 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
1940	Commonwealth v. O'Brien†	305 Mass. 393	103
1940	Home Savings Bank v. Savransky†	307 Mass. 601	80
1942	Commonwealth v. West†	312 Mass. 438	78
1940	Sperry & Hutchinson Co. v. Director of the Division on the Necessaries of Life†	307 Mass. 408	76
1938	Dumaine v. Dumaine†	301 Mass. 214	75
1943	Commonwealth v. Beal†	314 Mass. 210	72
1939	Rizzo v. Cunningham†	303 Mass. 16	72
1943	New England Box Co. v. C & R Construction Co.†	313 Mass. 696	71
1940	Himelfarb v. Novadel Agene Corp.†	305 Mass. 446	64
1941	Barttro v. Watertown Square Theatre, Inc.†	309 Mass. 223	62
1939	McCarthy v. City of Malden†	303 Mass. 563	60
1942	Brackett v. Board of Appeal†	311 Mass. 52	55
1941	Lydon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.†	309 Mass. 205	54
1941	Kinnear v. General Mills, Inc.†	308 Mass. 344	54
1942	Fine v. Commonwealth†	312 Mass. 252	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 346 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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Louis Cox on?: Louis Cox was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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