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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 1967 / Served to 1985

Samuel S. Steinfeld

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Samuel S. Steinfeld was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 1967. He previously served on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–2007
Tenure: 1967–1985 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–
1967	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Steinfeld authored 321 published opinions for the court (1967–1975), plus 17 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Pike v. George (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. 242 of these were attributed to Steinfeld 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
1968	Pike v. George	434 S.W.2d 626	88
1969	Sanford Construction Co. v. S & H CONTRACTORS, INC.	443 S.W.2d 227	46
1974	Bellemeade Company v. Priddle	503 S.W.2d 734	45
1973	Caine v. Commonwealth	491 S.W.2d 824	42
1970	Dossett v. New York Mining and Manufacturing Co.	451 S.W.2d 843	41
1967	Wells v. Wells	412 S.W.2d 568	41
1967	Smith v. Commonwealth	412 S.W.2d 256	39
1968	Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Stocker	423 S.W.2d 510	35
1974	Continental Insurance Companies v. Hancock	507 S.W.2d 146	31
1970	Stone v. Commonwealth	456 S.W.2d 43	31
1970	Allee v. Commonwealth	454 S.W.2d 336	28
1973	City of Lexington v. Gray	499 S.W.2d 72	27
1973	Sharp v. Sharp	491 S.W.2d 639	27
1970	Hurley v. Commonwealth	451 S.W.2d 838	27
1967	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Marcum	420 S.W.2d 113	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 341 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Samuel S. Steinfeld on?: Samuel S. Steinfeld was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

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