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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1971 / Served to 1986

Theodore O. Rogers

Judge, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Theodore O. Rogers was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1971–1986 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Rogers authored 1,549 published opinions for the court (1971–1986), plus 77 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Commonwealth v. United States Steel Corp. (89 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. 1,520 of these were attributed to Rogers 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
1977	Commonwealth v. United States Steel Corp.†	31 Pa. Commw. 329	89
1978	Wallace v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	38 Pa. Commw. 342	49
1979	Brungard v. HARTMAN	46 Pa. Commw. 10	48
1986	Johnson v. UN. COMP. BD. OF REV.	504 A.2d 989	47
1981	Philadelphia Electric Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission†	61 Pa. Commw. 325	47
1971	Department of Transportation v. Hosek†	3 Pa. Commw. 580	42
1973	Jacquelin v. Horsham Township†	10 Pa. Commw. 473	41
1974	Camp Hill Development Co. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment†	13 Pa. Commw. 519	39
1974	Groff v. Borough of Sellersville· Concurrence†	12 Pa. Commw. 315	39
1973	Zinman v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review†	8 Pa. Commw. 649	39
1986	Samilo v. PA. INSURANCE DEPT.†	510 A.2d 412	38
1979	Peppelman v. Commonwealth	44 Pa. Commw. 262	38
1975	Moak v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.†	18 Pa. Commw. 599	38
1979	In re Return of Tax Sale by Indiana County Tax Claim Bureau†	39 Pa. Commw. 492	37
1978	United States Steel Corp. v. Commonwealth	37 Pa. Commw. 195	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,647 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 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Theodore O. Rogers on?: Theodore O. Rogers was a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

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