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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1956 / Served to 1966

Stedman Prescott

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Stedman Prescott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1968
Tenure: 1956–1966 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Prescott authored 382 published opinions for the court (1956–1966), plus 16 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Amalgamated Casualty Insurance v. Helms (111 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. 374 of these were attributed to Prescott 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
1965	Amalgamated Casualty Insurance v. Helms†	212 A.2d 311	111
1965	Fowler v. Smith†	213 A.2d 549	108
1964	Food Fair Stores, Inc. v. Blumberg†	200 A.2d 166	104
1962	Wilhelm v. State of Maryland Traffic Safety Commission†	185 A.2d 715	103
1964	State Ex Rel. Odham v. Sherman· Concurrence†	198 A.2d 71	98
1961	Height v. State†	170 A.2d 212	96
1957	Keitz v. National Paving & Contracting Co.†	134 A.2d 296	96
1966	Hyson v. Montgomery County Council†	217 A.2d 578	95
1957	Ager v. Baltimore Transit Co.†	132 A.2d 469	86
1961	Baltimore Transit Co. v. Mezzanotti†	174 A.2d 768	84
1959	Vincent v. State†	151 A.2d 898	82
1965	Jordan v. State†	148 A.2d 292	78
1957	Clay v. State†	128 A.2d 634	77
1965	Hadder v. State†	209 A.2d 70	74
1958	Lusby v. State· Dissent†	141 A.2d 893	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 405 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 Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Stedman Prescott on?: Stedman Prescott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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