How do judges of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 2014 / Active

Victor P. Stabile

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Victor P. Stabile is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Stony Brook University

Judicial Record

In our data, Stabile authored 352 published opinions for the court (2014–2026), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re: Adoption of C.D.R., Appeal of: R.R. (597 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. 142 of these were attributed to Stabile 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
2015	In Re: Adoption of C.D.R., Appeal of: R.R.†	111 A.3d 1212	597
2017	In Re: M.Z.T.M.W., a minor, Appeal of: M.W.†	163 A.3d 462	370
2015	Commonwealth v. Reyes-Rodriguez†	111 A.3d 775	362
2018	Commonwealth v. Radecki†	180 A.3d 441	311
2014	S.W.D. v. S.A.R.†	96 A.3d 396	302
2017	Commonwealth v. Barnes†	167 A.3d 110	165
2015	Commonwealth v. Capaldi†	112 A.3d 1242	161
2019	Commonwealth v. Hill†	210 A.3d 1104	157
2014	Bank of America, N.A. v. Gibson†	102 A.3d 462	137
2015	Commonwealth v. Salter†	121 A.3d 987	130
2020	Com. v. Hopkins, G.	231 A.3d 855	90
2018	In Re: K.R., minor, Appeal of: K.R.†	200 A.3d 969	90
2021	Com. v. Prater, W.	2021 Pa. Super. 141	89
2017	K.W. v. S.L.†	157 A.3d 498	83
2015	Com. v. Steckley, S., Jr.· Concurrence†	128 A.3d 826	83

Showing the 15 most-cited of 363 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 Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Victor P. Stabile on?: Victor P. Stabile is a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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