How do judges of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1977

Paul Cashman Reardon

Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Paul Cashman Reardon was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–1988
Tenure: 1962–1977 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Reardon authored 389 published opinions for the court (1963–1976), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Pinnick v. Cleary (202 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. 85 of these were attributed to Reardon 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
1971	Pinnick v. Cleary	271 N.E.2d 592	202
1975	Commonwealth v. Forde	329 N.E.2d 717	189
1974	Commonwealth v. Antobenedetto	315 N.E.2d 530	169
1972	\	280 N.E.2d 423	151
1971	Commonwealth v. De Christoforo	277 N.E.2d 100	147
1967	Commonwealth v. Campbell	226 N.E.2d 211	145
1975	Commonwealth v. Boyd	326 N.E.2d 320	142
1976	CRIBERG v. Raymond	345 N.E.2d 882	125
1974	Commonwealth v. Stone	320 N.E.2d 888	103
1968	Boston Edison Co. v. Board of Selectmen of Concord	242 N.E.2d 868	100
1964	Commonwealth v. Welcome	201 N.E.2d 827	91
1976	Pevoski v. Pevoski	358 N.E.2d 416	90
1968	Home Owners Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Northwestern Fire & Marine Insurance	238 N.E.2d 55	90
1975	Commonwealth v. Hosey	334 N.E.2d 44	88
1976	Lewis v. Lewis	351 N.E.2d 526	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 399 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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Paul Cashman Reardon on?: Paul Cashman Reardon was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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