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New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1979 / Served to 1999

Stewart Glasson Pollock

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Stewart Glasson Pollock was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1979–1999 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Hamilton College
New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pollock authored 245 published opinions for the court (1980–2004), plus 38 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Henry v. Rahway State Prison (670 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. 77 of these were attributed to Pollock 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
1980	Henry v. Rahway State Prison	410 A.2d 686	670
1980	Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.	417 A.2d 505	501
1983	State, Dept. of Environ. Protect. v. Ventron Corp.	468 A.2d 150	467
1997	Gennari v. Weichert Co. Realtors	691 A.2d 350	463
1997	In re Return of Weapons to J.W.D.†	149 N.J. 108	357
1989	State v. O'DONNELL	564 A.2d 1202	356
1988	Buckley v. Trenton Saving Fund Society	544 A.2d 857	326
1980	Curtis v. Finneran	417 A.2d 15	315
1983	State v. Bruzzese· Dissent†	463 A.2d 320	310
1988	State v. Bey	548 A.2d 887	292
1997	State v. Harvey	699 A.2d 596	272
1982	Crowe v. De Gioia	447 A.2d 173	272
1990	Nolan v. Lee Ho· Dissent†	577 A.2d 143	261
1982	Right to Choose v. Byrne	450 A.2d 925	257
1994	Abbamont v. Piscataway Township Board of Education· Concurrence†	650 A.2d 958	254

Showing the 15 most-cited of 311 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 Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Stewart Glasson Pollock on?: Stewart Glasson Pollock was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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