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

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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1972 / Served to 1996

Robert C. Murphy

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Robert C. Murphy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1926–2000
Tenure: 1972–1996 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Murphy authored 543 published opinions for the court (1972–1997), plus 54 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Dorsey v. State (660 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. 517 of these were attributed to Murphy 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
1976	Dorsey v. State· Concurrence†	350 A.2d 665	660
1977	Harris v. Jones†	380 A.2d 611	400
1981	Adler v. American Standard Corp.†	432 A.2d 464	337
1980	Tichnell v. State†	415 A.2d 830	300
1993	Beatty v. Trailmaster Products, Inc.†	625 A.2d 1005	275
1995	Oaks v. Connors†	339 Md. 24	257
1986	Tucker v. Fireman's Fund Insurance†	517 A.2d 730	254
1979	State v. Hicks†	403 A.2d 356	250
1994	State v. Albrecht· Dissent†	336 Md. 475	213
1976	State v. Evans†	362 A.2d 629	210
1993	Bausch & Lomb Inc. v. Utica Mutual Insurance†	625 A.2d 1021	190
1977	Newton v. State· Dissent†	373 A.2d 262	189
1993	Faya v. Almaraz†	620 A.2d 327	187
1975	State v. Fabritz†	348 A.2d 275	179
1985	Ramsay, Scarlett & Co. v. Comptroller of Treasury†	490 A.2d 1296	172

Showing the 15 most-cited of 623 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 Robert C. Murphy on?: Robert C. Murphy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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24 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).