Who appointed Robert Workman Sweet?

President Jimmy Carter appointed Robert Workman Sweet to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1978.

Was Robert Workman Sweet appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Robert Workman Sweet was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Robert Workman Sweet's confirmation vote?

Robert Workman Sweet was confirmed by voice vote on April 25, 1978. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Southern District of New York / Appointed 1978 / Served to 2019

Robert Workman Sweet

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and confirmed by voice vote, Robert Workman Sweet was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1948. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2019
Appointed by: Jimmy Carter, 1978
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Yale 1944 · Yale Law School 1948
Succeeded: Inzer Bass Wyatt
Succeeded by: Harold Baer Jr.

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Southern District of New York succeeded Inzer Bass Wyatt	Carter (D)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Yale University	B.A.	1944
Yale Law School	LL.B.	1948

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Sweet was assigned 8,218 district-court cases (1981–2018). Median time from filing to termination: 143 days across 8,212 closed cases.

Personal-injury torts49%

Contract13%

Civil rights8%

Labor & ERISA6%

Intellectual property5%

Other federal statutes5%

Other14%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 168 of Sweet’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 125 were affirmed, 31 reversed or vacated, and 12 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Sweet authored 1,483 published opinions for the court (1978–2011). Most cited: Citigroup Inc. v. City Holding Co. (215 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2000	Citigroup Inc. v. City Holding Co.	97 F. Supp. 2d 549	215
1988	Carolco Pictures Inc. v. Sirota	700 F. Supp. 169	189
1995	German v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.	885 F. Supp. 537	133
1995	German by German v. Federal Home Loan Mortg. Corp.	896 F. Supp. 1385	117
1996	Houbigant, Inc. v. ACB Mercantile, Inc.	914 F. Supp. 997	114
1998	Granite Partners, LP v. Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.	17 F. Supp. 2d 275	110
1993	In Re Integrated Resources Real Estate Ltd. Partnerships Securities Litigation	815 F. Supp. 620	108
2011	United States Polo Ass'n v. PRL USA Holdings, Inc.	800 F. Supp. 2d 515	96
1999	Griffin Industries, Inc. v. Petrojam, Ltd.	72 F. Supp. 2d 365	96
1989	Morser v. AT & T INFORMATION SYSTEMS	715 F. Supp. 516	92
2008	In Re Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Master Fund, Ltd.	389 B.R. 325	91
2011	In Re Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. Securities, Derivative, & Erisa Litigation	763 F. Supp. 2d 423	90
1990	Don King Productions, Inc. v. Douglas	742 F. Supp. 741	90
1992	Miloslavsky v. AES Engineering Society, Inc.	808 F. Supp. 351	87
1989	Morin v. Trupin	711 F. Supp. 97	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,483 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

Who appointed Robert Workman Sweet?: President Jimmy Carter appointed Robert Workman Sweet to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1978.
Was Robert Workman Sweet appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Robert Workman Sweet was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Robert Workman Sweet's confirmation vote?: Robert Workman Sweet was confirmed by voice vote on April 25, 1978. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Robert Workman Sweet on?: Robert Workman Sweet was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Sources

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40 years on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).