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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1960 / Served to 1971

Vincent S. Haneman

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Vincent S. Haneman was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1978
Tenure: 1960–1971 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Haneman authored 94 published opinions for the court (1961–1971), plus 10 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Marini v. Ireland (221 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. 21 of these were attributed to Haneman 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
1970	Marini v. Ireland	265 A.2d 526	221
1969	Brewer v. Porch	249 A.2d 388	204
1965	Palisades Properties, Inc. v. Brunetti	207 A.2d 522	188
1970	State v. Profaci	266 A.2d 579	140
1962	State v. Clawans	183 A.2d 77	138
1961	Long v. Landy	171 A.2d 1	131
1965	State v. Fair	211 A.2d 359	102
1961	Douglas v. Harris	173 A.2d 1	92
1965	Ohio Casualty Insurance v. Flanagin	210 A.2d 221	88
1963	Loboda v. Township of Clark	193 A.2d 97	88
1969	State v. Kunz· Dissent†	259 A.2d 895	85
1968	D'ippolito v. Castoro	242 A.2d 617	83
1962	Hague v. Williams	181 A.2d 345	80
1961	Howard Savings Inst. of Newark v. Peep· Dissent†	170 A.2d 39	79
1962	Kulbacki v. Sobchinsky· Concurrence†	185 A.2d 835	72

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 New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Vincent S. Haneman on?: Vincent S. Haneman was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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