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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1921 / Served to 1931

Sylvester B. Sadler

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Sylvester B. Sadler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1931
Tenure: 1921–1931 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sadler authored 441 published opinions for the court (1921–1931), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Malley v. American Indemnity Co. (96 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. 161 of these were attributed to Sadler 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
1929	Malley v. American Indemnity Co.	146 A. 571	96
1926	Gasner v. Pierce	134 A. 494	79
1926	Commonwealth v. Doris	135 A. 313	78
1927	Sgattone v. Mulholland & Gotwals, Inc.	138 A. 855	74
1925	Markman v. Fred P. Bell Stores Co.	132 A. 178	71
1926	Durning v. Hyman	133 A. 568	70
1922	Callery's Appeal· Dissent†	272 Pa. 255	69
1927	Alperdt Et Ux. v. Paige	140 A. 555	65
1924	Meucci v. Gallatin Coal Co.†	279 Pa. 184	62
1928	Conroy v. Commercial Cas. Ins. Co.	140 A. 905	61
1922	Fields v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.†	273 Pa. 282	61
1928	Ladner v. Siegel	144 A. 274	59
1929	Valicenti's Appeal	148 A. 308	58
1922	Yeager's Estate†	273 Pa. 359	57
1925	Miller v. Miller	131 A. 236	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 442 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Sylvester B. Sadler on?: Sylvester B. Sadler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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