How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 2003 / Active

Vincent G. Torpy Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Vincent G. Torpy Jr. is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Central Florida
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Torpy authored 189 published opinions for the court (2003–2018), plus 5 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. State (31 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. 112 of these were attributed to Torpy 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
2009	Brown v. State	24 So. 3d 671	31
2003	Nichols v. State Farm Mut.	851 So. 2d 742	31
2009	Ward v. State· Concurrence†	19 So. 3d 1060	27
2004	Blanton v. State	880 So. 2d 798	27
2013	Knight v. State· Concurrence†	107 So. 3d 449	25
2009	Ortiz v. State· Concurrence†	24 So. 3d 596	25
2003	Lauren Kyle Holdings, Inc. v. Heath-Peterson Constr. Corp.	864 So. 2d 55	23
2011	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Curran	83 So. 3d 793	21
2013	Baxter v. Northrup†	128 So. 3d 908	18
2016	Billington v. Ginn-LA Pine Island, Ltd.†	192 So. 3d 77	17
2007	Wilson v. State	952 So. 2d 564	17
2004	Burch v. Sun State Ford, Inc.	864 So. 2d 466	17
2005	State v. Coleman	911 So. 2d 259	16
2004	Fuller v. State	867 So. 2d 469	16
2003	Golphin v. State	838 So. 2d 705	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 222 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 Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Vincent G. Torpy Jr. on?: Vincent G. Torpy Jr. is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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23 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).