How do judges of the Supreme Court of Alabama reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1873 / Served to 1884

Robert C. Brickell

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Robert C. Brickell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (9 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1873. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1824 · age 202
Tenure: 1873–1884 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1873	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brickell authored 627 published opinions for the court (1873–1883), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Gassenheimer v. State (119 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. 634 of these were attributed to Brickell 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
1875	Gassenheimer v. State†	52 Ala. 313	119
1878	McAdory v. State†	62 Ala. 154	99
1876	Beggs v. State†	55 Ala. 108	94
1883	Seals v. Robinson & Co.†	75 Ala. 363	80
1875	Eiland v. State†	52 Ala. 322	78
1875	Sparrenberger v. State†	53 Ala. 481	72
1876	McGuire v. Van Pelt†	55 Ala. 344	70
1875	Waring v. Lewis†	53 Ala. 615	67
1878	Lehman v. Lewis†	62 Ala. 129	65
1878	Patton v. Beecher†	62 Ala. 579	63
1875	Mayor of Mobile v. Stonewall Insurance†	53 Ala. 570	60
1875	Ex parte McAnally†	53 Ala. 495	59
1879	Strauss v. Meertief†	64 Ala. 299	57
1875	Rea v. Longstreet & Sedgwick†	54 Ala. 291	57
1883	Wilson v. State†	73 Ala. 527	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 635 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 Alabama reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Robert C. Brickell on?: Robert C. Brickell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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