How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1968 / Served to 1969

Wade L. Hopping

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Wade L. Hopping was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2009
Tenure: 1968–1969 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hopping authored 7 published opinions for the court (1968–1969). Most cited: State v. Cappetta (42 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. 3 of these were attributed to Hopping 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
1968	State v. Cappetta	216 So. 2d 749	42
1969	Williams v. State	228 So. 2d 377	34
1968	State v. Galasso	217 So. 2d 326	31
1969	McDaniel v. State	219 So. 2d 421	6
1969	International Minerals & Chemical Corp. v. Mayo†	217 So. 2d 563	4
1968	Orendorff v. Refrigerated Transport, Inc.†	216 So. 2d 453	3
1968	Texaco, Inc. v. Special Disability Fund of the Florida Industrial Commission†	217 So. 2d 111	0

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Wade L. Hopping on?: Wade L. Hopping was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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1 year 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).