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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1973 / Served to 1982

Morris Pashman

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Morris Pashman was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–1999
Tenure: 1973–1982 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-Camden

Judicial Record

In our data, Pashman authored 171 published opinions for the court (1973–1982), plus 88 dissents and 68 concurrences. Most cited: Lepis v. Lepis (573 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. 179 of these were attributed to Pashman 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
1980	Lepis v. Lepis	416 A.2d 45	573
1980	Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.· Dissent†	417 A.2d 505	501
1979	Weedo v. Stone-E-Brick, Inc.· Dissent†	405 A.2d 788	429
1978	Peper v. Princeton University Board of Trustees	389 A.2d 465	365
1978	New Jersey Guild of Hearing Aid Dispensers v. Long	384 A.2d 795	356
1982	State v. Hunt· Concurrence†	450 A.2d 952	319
1980	Portee v. Jaffee	417 A.2d 521	279
1981	State v. Hurd	432 A.2d 86	277
1975	Avant v. Clifford· Concurrence†	341 A.2d 629	276
1977	State v. Leonardis	375 A.2d 607	268
1982	Right to Choose v. Byrne· Concurrence†	450 A.2d 925	257
1982	In Re the Revocation of the License of Polk· Concurrence†	449 A.2d 7	256
1978	State v. Sands· Concurrence†	386 A.2d 378	235
1975	Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel· Concurrence†	67 N.J. 151	223
1975	State v. Krol	344 A.2d 289	213

Showing the 15 most-cited of 327 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 New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Morris Pashman on?: Morris Pashman was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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