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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1930 / Served to 1958

Sidney St. Felix Thaxter

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Sidney St. Felix Thaxter was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1958
Tenure: 1930–1958 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Thaxter authored 230 published opinions for the court (1930–1958), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Shine v. Dodge (40 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. 235 of these were attributed to Thaxter 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
1931	Shine v. Dodge†	130 Me. 440	40
1948	Farris ex rel. Dorsky v. Goss†	143 Me. 227	37
1945	Harvey v. Rackliffe†	141 Me. 169	35
1933	Hawkins v. Maine & New Hampshire Theaters Co.†	132 Me. 1	35
1953	New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Utilities Commission†	94 A.2d 801	34
1942	Merchant v. Bussell†	139 Me. 118	34
1938	Charles Cushman Co. v. Mackesy†	135 Me. 490	33
1934	Hatch v. Globe Laundry Co.†	132 Me. 379	30
1952	State v. F. H. Vahlsing, Inc.†	88 A.2d 144	28
1933	Richard v. Maine Central Railroad†	132 Me. 197	27
1949	Gagnon's Case†	144 Me. 131	23
1946	Maine Broadcasting Co. v. Eastern Trust & Banking Co.†	142 Me. 220	23
1930	Stuart v. Fox†	129 Me. 407	23
1950	Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells Water District v. Maine Turnpike Authority· Dissent†	71 A.2d 520	22
1949	Cassidy v. Murray†	144 Me. 326	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 235 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 Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Sidney St. Felix Thaxter on?: Sidney St. Felix Thaxter was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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