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Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1969 / Served to 1974

Vassar B. Carlton

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Vassar B. Carlton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–2005
Tenure: 1969–1974 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Education

Stetson University

Judicial Record

In our data, Carlton authored 167 published opinions for the court (1969–1974), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: AR Moyer, Inc. v. Graham (151 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. 56 of these were attributed to Carlton 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
1973	AR Moyer, Inc. v. Graham	285 So. 2d 397	151
1973	DeJesus v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company	281 So. 2d 198	108
1969	Tiedtke v. Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York	222 So. 2d 206	97
1971	First National Bank of Leesburg v. Hector Supply Co.	254 So. 2d 777	70
1970	Wong v. City of Miami	237 So. 2d 132	63
1971	Hoffman v. Carson	250 So. 2d 891	45
1970	State, Department of Citrus v. Griffin	239 So. 2d 577	45
1974	Adams v. Whitfield	290 So. 2d 49	38
1969	State v. Wright	224 So. 2d 300	38
1972	Edwards v. City of Fort Walton Beach	271 So. 2d 136	35
1971	State v. Llopis	257 So. 2d 17	34
1971	Mitchem v. State Ex Rel. Schaub	250 So. 2d 883	34
1971	Flammer v. Patton	245 So. 2d 854	32
1972	Mullarkey v. Florida Feed Mills, Inc.	268 So. 2d 363	30
1973	Rivera v. Deauville Hotel, Employers Service Corp.	277 So. 2d 265	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 174 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 Vassar B. Carlton on?: Vassar B. Carlton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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5 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).