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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1915 / Served to 1936

Robert S. Frazer

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Robert S. Frazer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1915. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1850 · age 176
Tenure: 1915–1936 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1915	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Lafayette College

Judicial Record

In our data, Frazer authored 743 published opinions for the court (1915–1935), plus 10 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Dorrance's Estate (136 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. 373 of these were attributed to Frazer 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
1932	Dorrance's Estate	163 A. 303	136
1929	Vinnacombe v. Phila. Am. S.· Concurrence	147 A. 828	96
1935	Kelley v. Kalodner	181 A. 598	84
1927	Gilfillan's Permit	140 A. 136	84
1927	Moorehead's Estate	137 A. 802	80
1924	Commonwealth v. Stallone	126 A. 56	75
1934	Childs v. Smeltzer	171 A. 883	64
1933	Tarlo's Estate· Dissent	172 A. 139	63
1928	Mardis, Administratrix v. Steen	141 A. 629	60
1915	Armstrong & Latta v. City of Philadelphia†	249 Pa. 39	56
1928	Commonwealth v. Weiland Packing Co.	141 A. 148	52
1915	Catani v. Swift & Co.†	251 Pa. 52	52
1925	Commonwealth v. Cicere	128 A. 446	49
1919	Macan v. Scandinavia Belting Co.†	264 Pa. 384	49
1918	Commonwealth v. Puder†	261 Pa. 129	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 755 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Robert S. Frazer on?: Robert S. Frazer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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