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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1957

Patrick Brett O'Sullivan

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Patrick Brett O'Sullivan was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1978
Tenure: 1950–1957 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Georgetown University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Sullivan authored 22 published opinions for the court (1950–1957), plus 21 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Pierce v. Albanese (151 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. 54 of these were attributed to O'Sullivan 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
1957	Pierce v. Albanese· Dissent†	144 Conn. 241	151
1952	Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. v. Pearson· Dissent†	139 Conn. 186	109
1951	Whitman Hotel Corporation v. Elliott & Watrous Engineering Co.· Concurrence†	137 Conn. 562	101
1954	Local 63, Textile Workers Union of America v. Cheney Bros.· Dissent†	141 Conn. 606	67
1951	Laube v. Stevenson· Dissent†	137 Conn. 469	64
1955	Harper v. Adametz· Dissent†	142 Conn. 218	61
1953	Bassett v. Desmond†	140 Conn. 426	61
1956	Wojculewicz v. Cummings†	143 Conn. 624	60
1952	Morgan v. Hill†	139 Conn. 159	60
1952	Bailey v. Mars· Concurrence†	138 Conn. 593	58
1952	State Ex Rel. Rourke v. Barbieri†	139 Conn. 203	56
1954	McWilliams v. American Fidelity Co.†	140 Conn. 572	53
1954	State v. Mazzadra· Dissent†	141 Conn. 731	48
1955	Lengel v. New Haven Gas Light Co.†	142 Conn. 70	47
1956	State v. Rogers· Dissent†	143 Conn. 167	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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 Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Patrick Brett O'Sullivan on?: Patrick Brett O'Sullivan was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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