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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1948 / Served to 1962

T Frank Hobson

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

T Frank Hobson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1966
Tenure: 1948–1962 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hobson authored 379 published opinions for the court (1933–1966), plus 18 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Dobbs v. Sea Isle Hotel (344 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. 151 of these were attributed to Hobson 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
1952	Dobbs v. Sea Isle Hotel	56 So. 2d 341	344
1951	US Casualty Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.	55 So. 2d 741	261
1952	Gordon v. Gordon	59 So. 2d 40	200
1954	Voelker v. Combined Ins. Co. of America	73 So. 2d 403	148
1949	Yandell v. Yandell	39 So. 2d 554	112
1961	Pinkerton-Hays Lumber Company v. Pope	127 So. 2d 441	106
1950	Gaulden v. Kirk	47 So. 2d 567	101
1962	Sharer v. Hotel Corporation of America	144 So. 2d 813	97
1962	Orange Brevard Plumbing & Heating Co. v. La Croix	137 So. 2d 201	87
1961	Tyus v. Apalachicola Northern Railroad Company	130 So. 2d 580	87
1950	Dade County v. Brigham	47 So. 2d 602	81
1951	Foley v. State Ex Rel. Gordon	50 So. 2d 179	79
1950	Pawley v. Pawley	46 So. 2d 464	75
1959	Jacksonville Express. Auth. v. Henry G. Du Pree Co.	108 So. 2d 289	74
1954	Bartholf v. Baker	71 So. 2d 480	74

Showing the 15 most-cited of 427 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 Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was T Frank Hobson on?: T Frank Hobson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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