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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1944 / Served to 1970

Raymond Sanger Wilkins

Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Raymond Sanger Wilkins was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1971
Tenure: 1944–1970 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilkins authored 960 published opinions for the court (1944–1970). Most cited: Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. v. First National Bank & Trust Co. (116 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. 389 of these were attributed to Wilkins 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
1962	Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. v. First National Bank & Trust Co.	184 N.E.2d 358	116
1968	Adamian v. Three Sons, Inc.	233 N.E.2d 18	115
1970	J. T. Healy & Son, Inc. v. James A. Murphy & Son, Inc.	260 N.E.2d 723	108
1959	Commonwealth v. Geagan	159 N.E.2d 870	98
1949	Druzik v. Board of Health of Haverhill†	324 Mass. 129	95
1963	Commonwealth v. Baker	190 N.E.2d 555	90
1967	Craig v. Everett M. Brooks Co.	222 N.E.2d 752	86
1950	Commonwealth v. Carpenter	91 N.E.2d 666	78
1960	Yerid v. Mason	170 N.E.2d 718	77
1970	Hub Associates, Inc. v. Goode	258 N.E.2d 733	74
1969	Carey v. New Yorker of Worcester, Inc.	245 N.E.2d 420	72
1956	Commonwealth v. Conroy	133 N.E.2d 246	71
1969	Powell v. Rasmussen	243 N.E.2d 167	68
1963	National Cash Register Co. v. Firestone & Co. Inc.	191 N.E.2d 471	65
1956	Boston Gas Co. v. Assessors of Boston	137 N.E.2d 462	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 960 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 Raymond Sanger Wilkins on?: Raymond Sanger Wilkins was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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26 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).