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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1970 / Served to 1981

Suidney W. Wernick

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Suidney W. Wernick was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1995
Tenure: 1970–1981 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wernick authored 329 published opinions for the court (1971–1982), plus 1 dissent and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Collins (176 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. 333 of these were attributed to Wernick 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
1972	State v. Collins†	297 A.2d 620	176
1978	State v. Williams†	388 A.2d 500	103
1973	Danforth v. State Department of Health and Welfare· Concurrence†	303 A.2d 794	83
1981	Patrons-Oxford Mutual Insurance v. Dodge†	426 A.2d 888	82
1973	City of Biddeford Ex Rel. Board of Education v. Biddeford Teachers Ass'n· Concurrence†	304 A.2d 387	67
1973	State v. Lafferty· Concurrence†	309 A.2d 647	62
1981	State v. Philbrick	436 A.2d 844	58
1974	Walsh v. City of Brewer†	315 A.2d 200	58
1981	Anderson v. Neal· Concurrence†	428 A.2d 1189	54
1979	Doyle v. Bowdoin College†	403 A.2d 1206	52
1972	Cohen v. Bowdoin†	288 A.2d 106	51
1978	Drake v. Smith†	390 A.2d 541	50
1978	Chapman v. Bomann†	381 A.2d 1123	49
1973	Camden National Bank v. St. Clair†	309 A.2d 329	49
1980	MacDonald v. MacDonald†	412 A.2d 71	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 336 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 Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Suidney W. Wernick on?: Suidney W. Wernick was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Sources

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