How do judges of the New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1975

Nathan L. Jacobs

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Nathan L. Jacobs was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1989
Tenure: 1948–1975 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jacobs authored 323 published opinions for the court (1948–1975), plus 35 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Rappaport v. Nichols (385 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. 357 of these were attributed to Jacobs 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
1959	Rappaport v. Nichols†	156 A.2d 1	385
1963	Campbell v. Department of Civil Service†	189 A.2d 712	353
1962	Goldberg v. Housing Auth. of City of Newark· Dissent†	186 A.2d 291	316
1961	Kievit v. Loyal Protective Life Insurance†	170 A.2d 22	262
1965	Schipper v. Levitt & Sons, Inc.†	207 A.2d 314	231
1961	Fernandi v. Strully†	173 A.2d 277	226
1970	Burd v. Sussex Mutual Insurance Company· Dissent†	267 A.2d 7	220
1955	Rainier's Dairies v. Raritan Valley Farms, Inc.†	117 A.2d 889	181
1954	State v. Orecchio†	106 A.2d 541	180
1965	Allen v. Metropolitan Life Insurance†	208 A.2d 638	170
1958	Collopy v. Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary†	141 A.2d 276	163
1952	Ward v. Scott†	93 A.2d 385	161
1971	Crescent Park Tenants Ass'n v. Realty Equities Corp.†	58 N.J. 98	158
1973	Farrell v. Votator Division of Chemetron Corp.†	299 A.2d 394	153
1964	State v. Jackson†	203 A.2d 1	142

Showing the 15 most-cited of 373 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 Nathan L. Jacobs on?: Nathan L. Jacobs was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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27 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).