How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

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

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1957 / Served to 1965

Mallory Horton

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Mallory Horton was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–2004
Tenure: 1957–1965 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Miami
University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Horton authored 352 published opinions for the court (1957–1965), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Continental Copper & Steel Indus., Inc. v. EC\ (48 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. 258 of these were attributed to Horton 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
1958	Continental Copper & Steel Indus., Inc. v. EC\	104 So. 2d 40	48
1959	Hamilton v. State	109 So. 2d 422	38
1958	Fink v. Powsner	108 So. 2d 324	38
1960	Lendsay v. Cotton	123 So. 2d 745	37
1960	Banfi v. Banfi	123 So. 2d 52	36
1958	Millar v. Tropical Gables Corp.	99 So. 2d 589	34
1960	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Ganey	125 So. 2d 576	32
1957	Stone v. Stone	97 So. 2d 352	32
1957	North Shore Realty Corporation v. Gallaher	99 So. 2d 255	31
1960	Stoller v. Jaffe	125 So. 2d 310	30
1959	Driscoll v. Morris	114 So. 2d 314	30
1961	Harms v. Miami Daily News, Inc.	127 So. 2d 715	29
1958	Buck v. Mouradian	100 So. 2d 70	29
1961	Dade National Bank of Miami v. Kay	131 So. 2d 24	28
1960	Lingefelt v. Hanner	125 So. 2d 325	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 366 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 Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Mallory Horton on?: Mallory Horton was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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8 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).