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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1972 / Served to 1979

Louis L. Manderino

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Louis L. Manderino was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–1979
Tenure: 1972–1979 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Saint Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Manderino authored 273 published opinions for the court (1972–1979), plus 263 dissents and 99 concurrences. Most cited: Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. (817 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. 633 of these were attributed to Manderino 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
1974	Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co.· Concurrence†	457 Pa. 255	817
1977	Taylor v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	378 A.2d 829	489
1977	Commonwealth v. Riggins· Concurrence†	377 A.2d 140	471
1973	Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education· Concurrence†	453 Pa. 584	419
1976	Commonwealth v. Farquharson· Dissent†	354 A.2d 545	388
1978	In Re William L.· Dissent†	383 A.2d 1228	319
1979	Bass v. Commonwealth†	401 A.2d 1133	267
1977	Commonwealth v. Sullivan· Concurrence†	371 A.2d 468	264
1977	In Re Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights of Burns· Dissent†	379 A.2d 535	244
1977	Community College v. Community College, Society of the Faculty· Concurrence†	473 Pa. 576	227
1978	Adler, Barish, Daniels, Levin & Creskoff v. Epstein· Dissent†	393 A.2d 1175	223
1976	Commonwealth v. O'SEARO· Dissent†	352 A.2d 30	219
1978	Collister v. Nationwide Life Insurance†	388 A.2d 1346	218
1972	Commonwealth v. Garvin· Dissent†	448 Pa. 258	218
1979	Commonwealth v. DeJohn· Dissent†	403 A.2d 1283	216

Showing the 15 most-cited of 635 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 Louis L. Manderino on?: Louis L. Manderino was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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7 years 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).