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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1910 / Served to 1930

Robert von Moschzisker

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Robert von Moschzisker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1910. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1870–1939
Tenure: 1910–1930 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1910	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Dickinson College
Lafayette College

Judicial Record

In our data, Moschzisker authored 673 published opinions for the court (1910–1930), plus 26 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Kariher's Petition (No. 1) (189 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. 524 of these were attributed to Moschzisker 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
1925	Kariher's Petition (No. 1)	131 A. 265	189
1926	Vorbnoff v. Mesta Machine Co.	133 A. 256	185
1918	McCauley v. Imperial Woolen Co.†	261 Pa. 312	127
1911	Commonwealth v. Colandro†	231 Pa. 343	122
1921	Buehler v. United States Fashion Plate Co.†	269 Pa. 428	121
1924	Scibilia v. Philadelphia†	279 Pa. 549	100
1927	Mudano v. Phila. Rapid Transit Co.	137 A. 104	98
1928	Commonwealth v. Parker	143 A. 904	97
1923	Class & Nachod Brewing Co. v. Giacobello†	277 Pa. 530	91
1921	Fink v. Sheldon Axle & Spring Co.†	270 Pa. 476	85
1919	Flucker v. Carnegie Steel Co.†	263 Pa. 113	83
1930	Taylor v. Haverford Township	149 A. 639	78
1927	Hartig v. American Ice Co.	137 A. 867	78
1926	McCaffrey v. Schwartz	132 A. 810	75
1929	Knowles's Estate	145 A. 797	74

Showing the 15 most-cited of 703 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 von Moschzisker on?: Robert von Moschzisker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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20 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).