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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1975 / Served to 1984

Sydney Schreiber

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Sydney Schreiber was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–2009
Tenure: 1975–1984 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Schreiber authored 135 published opinions for the court (1975–1985), plus 59 dissents and 43 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Green (373 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. 115 of these were attributed to Schreiber 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
1981	State v. Green	430 A.2d 914	373
1982	State v. Carter	449 A.2d 1280	366
1979	Suter v. San Angelo Foundry & MacHine Company	406 A.2d 140	358
1975	State v. Johnson· Concurrence†	346 A.2d 66	338
1982	State v. Hunt	450 A.2d 952	319
1985	Matter of Conroy	486 A.2d 1209	296
1981	State v. Alston· Concurrence†	440 A.2d 1311	275
1982	Crowe v. De Gioia· Dissent†	447 A.2d 173	272
1983	State v. Williams· Dissent†	93 N.J. 39	268
1981	Ramirez v. Amsted Industries, Inc.· Concurrence†	431 A.2d 811	250
1984	Feldman v. Lederle Laboratories	479 A.2d 374	248
1984	Nappe v. Anschelewitz, Barr, Ansell & Bonello	477 A.2d 1224	242
1978	State v. Sands	386 A.2d 378	235
1983	H. Rosenblum, Inc. v. Adler	461 A.2d 138	234
1980	City of Newark v. Natural Resource Council in the Department of Environmental Protection	414 A.2d 1304	224

Showing the 15 most-cited of 237 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 Sydney Schreiber on?: Sydney Schreiber was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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9 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).