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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1964 / Served to 1967

Reuben Oppenheimer

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Reuben Oppenheimer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1982
Tenure: 1964–1967 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Oppenheimer authored 98 published opinions for the court (1964–1967), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Schowgurow v. State (239 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. 96 of these were attributed to Oppenheimer 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
1965	Schowgurow v. State	213 A.2d 475	239
1967	Deems v. Western Maryland Railway Co.†	231 A.2d 514	187
1965	JOHNSON, ETC. v. State†	209 A.2d 765	99
1966	Town of Somerset v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals†	225 A.2d 294	94
1967	Sanza v. Maryland State Board of Censors†	226 A.2d 317	82
1965	Space Aero Products Co. v. R. E. Darling Co.†	208 A.2d 74	81
1966	Poe v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore†	216 A.2d 707	68
1965	State v. Madison†	213 A.2d 880	68
1966	Travelers Indemnity Company v. Nationwide Construction Corporation†	224 A.2d 285	66
1966	Gatewood v. State†	224 A.2d 677	65
1966	Truitt v. Board of Public Works†	221 A.2d 370	64
1966	Van Wagenberg v. Van Wagenberg†	215 A.2d 812	61
1964	Davis v. State†	205 A.2d 254	61
1965	Mayor of Baltimore v. Borinsky†	212 A.2d 508	60
1965	Brown v. State	207 A.2d 103	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Reuben Oppenheimer on?: Reuben Oppenheimer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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