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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1980 / Served to 1994

Madaline Palladino

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Madaline Palladino was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1980–1994 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Palladino authored 969 published opinions for the court (1980–1993), plus 58 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Kirkwood v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV. (239 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. 798 of these were attributed to Palladino 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
1987	Kirkwood v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.· Concurrence†	525 A.2d 841	239
1986	Johnson v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	94 Pa. Commw. 24	102
1980	Thomas v. Commonwealth, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board†	55 Pa. Commw. 449	73
1990	Bethenergy Mines, Inc. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board†	572 A.2d 838	64
1988	Moore v. PA. DEPT. OF JUSTICE· Concurrence†	538 A.2d 111	57
1990	Bethenergy Mines, Inc. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board†	572 A.2d 843	53
1989	Martin v. Commonwealth	556 A.2d 969	47
1992	Hercules, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	146 Pa. Commw. 77	45
1991	COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. Kilrain†	593 A.2d 932	44
1992	Monaghan v. Board of School Directors of Reading School District	618 A.2d 1239	40
1992	Commonwealth v. 502-504 Gordon Street	607 A.2d 839	39
1990	Pennsylvania Chiropractic Federation v. Foster†	583 A.2d 844	39
1988	Yakowicz v. McDermott	548 A.2d 1330	39
1987	Hall v. ACME MARKETS, INC.†	532 A.2d 894	39
1990	National Solid Wastes Management Ass'n v. Casey· Dissent†	135 Pa. Commw. 134	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,044 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 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Madaline Palladino on?: Madaline Palladino was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

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