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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 1926 / Served to 1949

Oliver Winslow Branch

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Oliver Winslow Branch was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1926. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1955
Tenure: 1926–1949 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1926	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Branch authored 267 published opinions for the court (1926–1949), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Harlow v. Leclair (70 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. 1 of these was attributed to Branch 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
1927	Harlow v. Leclair	136 A. 123	70
1940	Merchants Mutual Casualty Co. v. Lambert	11 A.2d 361	57
1939	Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. McCarthy· Dissent	8 A.2d 750	41
1929	Hawkins v. McGee	146 A. 641	36
1926	Gobrecht v. Beckwith	135 A. 20	32
1936	Barlow v. Verrill	183 A. 857	30
1939	Welch v. Frisbie Memorial Hospital	9 A.2d 761	27
1931	Leclerc v. Leclerc	155 A. 249	27
1933	Flynn v. Gordon	165 A. 715	24
1927	Piper v. Meredith	139 A. 294	23
1927	Jones v. Boston & Maine Railroad	139 A. 214	23
1946	Hallahan v. Riley	45 A.2d 886	22
1937	Carbone v. Boston & Maine Railroad	192 A. 858	21
1932	Vidal v. Errol	162 A. 232	21
1932	Coté v. Bachelder-Worcester Co.	160 A. 101	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 273 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 Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Oliver Winslow Branch on?: Oliver Winslow Branch was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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