How do judges of the New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Hampshire Supreme Court / Joined 1925 / Served to 1946

Thomas Littlefield Marble

Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court

Thomas Littlefield Marble was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1952
Tenure: 1925–1946 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	New Hampshire Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Marble authored 299 published opinions for the court (1925–1946), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Hoyt v. New Hampshire Fire Insurance (52 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 of these was attributed to Marble 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
1942	Hoyt v. New Hampshire Fire Insurance	29 A.2d 121	52
1941	Duncan v. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co.	23 A.2d 325	36
1939	Gowen v. Swain	10 A.2d 249	30
1937	Aetna Life Insurance v. Chandler	193 A. 233	26
1944	Maltais v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States	40 A.2d 837	20
1927	State v. Mannion	136 A. 358	20
1941	Davie v. Rochester Cemetery Ass'n	23 A.2d 377	19
1946	Chronicle & Gazette Publishing Co. v. Attorney General· Dissent	48 A.2d 478	18
1945	Nashua Gummed & Coated Paper Co. v. Noyes Buick Co.	41 A.2d 920	18
1939	Lumbermens' Mutual Casualty Co. v. Yeroyan	5 A.2d 726	16
1935	Howson v. Foster Beef Co.	177 A. 656	16
1933	Dover Coöperative Bank v. Estate of Tobin	166 A. 247	15
1932	Exeter Banking Co. v. Taylor	160 A. 733	15
1927	Webster v. Seavey	138 A. 541	15
1935	American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Ocean Accident Guarantee Corp.	180 A. 249	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 302 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 New Hampshire Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Thomas Littlefield Marble on?: Thomas Littlefield Marble was a Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

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