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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1973 / Served to 1979

Thomas E. Delahanty

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Thomas E. Delahanty was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1985
Tenure: 1973–1979 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Delahanty authored 106 published opinions for the court (1973–1979), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hossler Ex Rel. Dows v. Barry (71 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. 109 of these were attributed to Delahanty 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
1979	Hossler Ex Rel. Dows v. Barry†	403 A.2d 762	71
1975	Ruebsamen v. Maddocks†	340 A.2d 31	69
1977	American Policyholders' Insurance Co. v. Cumberland Cold Storage Co.†	373 A.2d 247	60
1974	Berry v. Daigle†	322 A.2d 320	57
1978	Nadeau v. State†	395 A.2d 107	55
1979	CRY v. Cote†	396 A.2d 1013	54
1976	State v. Hurd†	360 A.2d 525	52
1979	Carriers Insurance Co. v. American Policyholders' Insurance†	404 A.2d 216	48
1979	Kradoska v. Kipp†	397 A.2d 562	48
1977	Mechanic Falls Water Co. v. Public Utilities Commission†	381 A.2d 1080	48
1979	Townsend v. Maine Bureau of Public Safety†	404 A.2d 1014	46
1976	Maine Real Estate Commission v. Kelby†	360 A.2d 528	41
1974	State v. Brown†	321 A.2d 478	37
1978	Arsenault v. Carrier†	390 A.2d 1048	35
1977	Town of Arundel v. Swain†	374 A.2d 317	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 109 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 Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Thomas E. Delahanty on?: Thomas E. Delahanty was a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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