How do judges of the New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1967

Stephen Morse Wheeler

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Stephen Morse Wheeler was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1967
Tenure: 1957–1967 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of New Haven

Judicial Record

In our data, Wheeler authored 143 published opinions for the court (1957–1967), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Poliquin v. MacDonald (79 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. 48 of these were attributed to Wheeler 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
1957	Poliquin v. MacDonald	101 N.H. 104	79
1959	Pepin v. Beaulieu	102 N.H. 84	43
1961	State v. Nelson	103 N.H. 478	36
1963	Thompson v. Thompson	105 N.H. 86	30
1964	McKinney v. Riley	105 N.H. 249	25
1965	Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Hopkins	106 N.H. 412	23
1966	Mildred M. Gossler & A. v. Manchester	107 N.H. 310	20
1957	Dunfey Realty Co. v. Enwright	101 N.H. 195	20
1963	State v. Nelson	105 N.H. 184	19
1966	Laplant v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	107 N.H. 183	16
1960	Molburg v. Hunter Hosiery, Inc.†	102 N.H. 422	13
1966	Allen v. Hampton	107 N.H. 377	12
1966	Urie v. Franconia Paper Corp.	107 N.H. 131	12
1965	Kenneth E. Curran, Inc. v. State†	106 N.H. 558	12
1963	Burr v. Keene	105 N.H. 228	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Stephen Morse Wheeler on?: Stephen Morse Wheeler was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Sources

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