How do judges of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1934 / Served to 1956

Stanley Elroy Qua

Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Stanley Elroy Qua was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1965
Tenure: 1934–1956 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Qua authored 914 published opinions for the court (1935–1956). Most cited: Bates v. Southgate (147 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. 770 of these were attributed to Qua 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
1941	Bates v. Southgate†	308 Mass. 170	147
1948	Hartmann v. Boston Herald-Traveler Corp.†	323 Mass. 56	140
1949	Circle Lounge & Grille, Inc. v. Board of Appeal†	324 Mass. 427	122
1948	Owen v. Williams†	322 Mass. 356	107
1954	Pendergast v. Board of Appeals†	331 Mass. 555	103
1945	Town of Burlington v. Dunn†	318 Mass. 216	100
1943	Kelly v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.†	315 Mass. 301	96
1947	Commonwealth v. Bellino†	320 Mass. 635	91
1938	Birnbaum v. Pamoukis†	301 Mass. 559	91
1942	Swinton v. Whitinsville Savings Bank†	311 Mass. 677	89
1937	Abrams v. Factory Mutual Liability Insurance†	298 Mass. 141	89
1935	Miller v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.†	291 Mass. 445	89
1943	Bander v. Metropolitan Life Insurance†	313 Mass. 337	87
1951	Sears v. Treasurer & Receiver General	98 N.E.2d 621	86
1939	Allydonn Realty Corp. v. Holyoke Housing Authority†	304 Mass. 288	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 914 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 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Stanley Elroy Qua on?: Stanley Elroy Qua was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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