How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1940 / Served to 1957

Stephen R. Collins

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Stephen R. Collins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1896 · age 130
Tenure: 1940–1957 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Collins authored 398 published opinions for the court (1941–1957), plus 9 dissents. Most cited: Brack v. Wells (85 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. 206 of these were attributed to Collins 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
1944	Brack v. Wells	40 A.2d 319	85
1948	Smith v. State	62 A.2d 287	77
1954	Plank v. Summers†	102 A.2d 262	73
1956	Strickler Engineering Corp. v. Seminar, Inc.†	122 A.2d 563	71
1948	East Coast Freight Lines, Inc. v. Mayor of Baltimore	58 A.2d 290	71
1953	Linkins v. State†	96 A.2d 246	68
1956	Albert v. Public Service Commission†	120 A.2d 346	58
1955	Brashears v. Collison†	115 A.2d 289	56
1947	Cromwell v. Jackson	52 A.2d 79	56
1956	Comptroller of Treasury v. Aerial Products, Inc.†	124 A.2d 805	50
1948	Waters v. Waters	62 A.2d 250	50
1955	Walker v. Board of County Commissioners†	116 A.2d 393	48
1957	Maszczenski v. Myers†	129 A.2d 109	47
1956	Shriner v. Mullhausen†	122 A.2d 570	44
1945	Purviance v. State	44 A.2d 474	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 407 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 Stephen R. Collins on?: Stephen R. Collins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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17 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).