How do judges of the Massachusetts Appeals Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Appeals Court / Joined 1972 / Served to 1982

Reuben Goodman

Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court

Reuben Goodman was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1982
Tenure: 1972–1982 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Massachusetts Appeals Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goodman authored 135 published opinions for the court (1972–1982), plus 9 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Kroeger v. Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. (75 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. 57 of these were attributed to Goodman 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
1982	Kroeger v. Stop & Shop Companies, Inc.· Dissent†	432 N.E.2d 566	75
1978	Wolfe v. Ford Motor Co.	376 N.E.2d 143	75
1977	Rafferty v. Sancta Maria Hospital†	5 Mass. App. Ct. 624	63
1978	Levy v. Bendetson	379 N.E.2d 1121	49
1973	Commonwealth v. Ennis	301 N.E.2d 589	43
1978	Graci v. Damon	374 N.E.2d 311	39
1980	Dynamics Research Corp. v. Analytic Sciences Corp.†	9 Mass. App. Ct. 254	35
1975	M. DeMatteo Construction Co. v. Board of Appeals	334 N.E.2d 51	33
1982	Commonwealth v. Edgerly	435 N.E.2d 641	30
1980	Smalley v. Planning Board of Harwich	410 N.E.2d 1219	30
1979	Zildjian v. Zildjian	391 N.E.2d 697	29
1976	S. Volpe & Co. v. Board of Appeals of Wareham	348 N.E.2d 807	28
1980	Commonwealth v. Fiore†	9 Mass. App. Ct. 618	27
1974	Standard Electric Supply Co. v. Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance	307 N.E.2d 11	26
1980	Commonwealth v. Winter	402 N.E.2d 1372	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 149 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 Appeals Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Reuben Goodman on?: Reuben Goodman was a Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Sources

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