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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 1958 / Served to 1963

Samuel Mellitz

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Samuel Mellitz was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1982
Tenure: 1958–1963 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mellitz authored 20 published opinions for the court (1949–1961), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Downs v. National Casualty Co. (88 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. 12 of these were attributed to Mellitz 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
1959	Downs v. National Casualty Co.	146 Conn. 490	88
1959	Moss v. New Haven Redevelopment Agency	146 Conn. 421	81
1961	Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers, Inc. v. Southern New England Telephone Co.	148 Conn. 192	76
1958	Muller v. Town Plan & Zoning Commission	145 Conn. 325	55
1958	Allen Manufacturing Co. v. Loika†	145 Conn. 509	46
1960	Carter v. Carter· Dissent†	147 Conn. 238	29
1959	Lashin v. Corcoran	146 Conn. 512	24
1959	DiCioccio v. Town of Wethersfield	146 Conn. 474	23
1961	Catalano v. Catalano· Dissent†	148 Conn. 288	21
1958	International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union No. 677 v. Trudon & Platt Motor Lines, Inc.†	146 Conn. 17	20
1959	Gorman v. American Sumatra Tobacco Corporation	146 Conn. 383	13
1960	Giuliano Construction Co. v. Simmons†	147 Conn. 441	11
1959	William W. Backus Hospital, Inc. v. City of Norwich†	146 Conn. 686	7
1959	Geremia v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act	146 Conn. 264	7
1961	Construction Aggregates Corp. v. State†	148 Conn. 315	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Samuel Mellitz on?: Samuel Mellitz was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Sources

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