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Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1940 / Served to 1961

Taylor Hudnall Stukes

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Taylor Hudnall Stukes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1893 · age 133
Tenure: 1940–1961 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stukes authored 534 published opinions for the court (1940–1961), plus 35 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gregory (111 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. 95 of these were attributed to Stukes 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
1941	State v. Gregory	16 S.E.2d 532	111
1947	Ashmore v. Greater Greenville Sewer Dist.	44 S.E.2d 88	81
1955	State v. Littlejohn· Dissent†	89 S.E.2d 924	79
1942	Charles v. Texas Co.	18 S.E.2d 719	66
1950	Powers v. CALVERT FIRE INS. CO.	57 S.E.2d 638	52
1958	State v. Hollman· Dissent†	102 S.E.2d 873	48
1955	Richards v. City of Columbia	88 S.E.2d 683	48
1957	State v. Lytchfield	95 S.E.2d 857	41
1956	Edens v. City of Columbia	91 S.E.2d 280	41
1942	Eickhoff v. Beard-Laney, Inc.	20 S.E.2d 153	41
1942	All v. Prillaman	20 S.E.2d 741	40
1957	Adams v. Davison-Paxon Co.	96 S.E.2d 566	38
1951	Jones v. Atlanta-Charlotte Air Line R. Co.	63 S.E.2d 476	38
1945	Mack v. Post Exchange	35 S.E.2d 838	37
1952	Nolan v. Daley· Dissent†	73 S.E.2d 449	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 589 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Taylor Hudnall Stukes on?: Taylor Hudnall Stukes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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