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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of North Carolina / Joined 1925 / Served to 1951

Walter P. Stacy

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Walter P. Stacy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1951
Tenure: 1925–1951 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Stacy authored 2,070 published opinions for the court (1921–1951), plus 62 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: State v. . Beal (160 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. 283 of these were attributed to Stacy 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
1930	State v. . Beal	154 S.E. 604	160
1949	State v. Ballance· Dissent†	229 N.C. 764	130
1938	Powers v. S. Sternberg & Co.	195 S.E. 88	124
1933	State v. . Cope	167 S.E. 456	124
1930	Pruitt v. . Wood	156 S.E. 126	120
1930	State v. . Johnson	154 S.E. 730	115
1924	Speas v. Merchants Bank & Trust Co.	125 S.E. 398	113
1922	State v. . Benson	111 S.E. 869	111
1923	Small Ex Rel. Balthis v. Morrison	118 S.E. 12	108
1932	State v. . Lea	164 S.E. 737	107
1925	Nash v. . Royster	127 S.E. 356	107
1940	Butner v. Spease†	217 N.C. 82	102
1928	Ballinger v. . Thomas	142 S.E. 761	102
1940	Butner v. . Spease	6 S.E.2d 808	101
1948	Gould Morris Electric Co. v. Atlantic Fire Insurance Co.	50 S.E.2d 295	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,173 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 North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Walter P. Stacy on?: Walter P. Stacy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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