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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2008 / Served to 2011

Robert A. Freedberg

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Robert A. Freedberg was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2008–2011 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Freedberg authored 52 published opinions for the court (2008–2011), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. Gibbs (568 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. 56 of these were attributed to Freedberg 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
2009	Commonwealth v. Gibbs†	981 A.2d 274	568
2009	Commonwealth v. Burton†	973 A.2d 428	470
2011	Commonwealth v. Dunphy†	20 A.3d 1215	357
2009	Commonwealth v. Lilley†	978 A.2d 995	304
2008	Commonwealth v. Sheller†	961 A.2d 187	231
2009	Commonwealth v. Judy†	978 A.2d 1015	165
2011	Commonwealth v. Coleman†	19 A.3d 1111	154
2009	Commonwealth v. Page†	965 A.2d 1212	127
2009	Commonwealth v. Broaden†	980 A.2d 124	117
2009	In the Interest of J.T.†	983 A.2d 771	104
2009	Commonwealth v. Johnson†	967 A.2d 1001	101
2009	Commonwealth v. Allshouse†	969 A.2d 1236	81
2009	Commonwealth v. Prysock†	972 A.2d 539	65
2009	Erie Insurance Exchange v. Larrimore†	987 A.2d 732	64
2011	Commonwealth v. Masker· Concurrence†	34 A.3d 841	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Robert A. Freedberg on?: Robert A. Freedberg was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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