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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of North Carolina / Joined 1981 / Served to 1994

Louis B. Meyer

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Louis B. Meyer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1933–1999
Tenure: 1981–1994 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, Meyer authored 301 published opinions for the court (1981–1995), plus 115 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty (788 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. 174 of these were attributed to Meyer 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
1989	In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty	379 S.E.2d 30	788
1982	Hilliard v. Apex Cabinet Co.· Dissent†	290 S.E.2d 682	661
1985	State v. Braswell	324 S.E.2d 241	510
1983	Rutledge v. Tultex Corp./Kings Yarn· Dissent†	301 S.E.2d 359	428
1981	Marshall v. Miller	276 S.E.2d 397	390
1990	Goldston v. American Motors Corp.· Dissent†	392 S.E.2d 735	296
1989	Turner v. Duke University	381 S.E.2d 706	291
1990	Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A.· Dissent†	395 S.E.2d 85	287
1984	State v. Hill· Dissent†	319 S.E.2d 163	282
1983	State v. Ahearn	300 S.E.2d 689	282
1986	Peoples v. Cone Mills Corp.· Dissent†	342 S.E.2d 798	275
1985	State v. Smith	337 S.E.2d 833	272
1990	Burgess v. Your House of Raleigh, Inc.	388 S.E.2d 134	267
1985	Pembee Mfg. Corp. v. Cape Fear Const. Co., Inc.	329 S.E.2d 350	251
1983	State v. Oliver	307 S.E.2d 304	250

Showing the 15 most-cited of 458 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 North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Louis B. Meyer on?: Louis B. Meyer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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