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Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1986 / Served to 1990

William H. Adkins II

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

William H. Adkins II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2003
Tenure: 1986–1990 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Education

Williams College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Adkins authored 82 published opinions for the court (1986–1990), plus 13 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore (588 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. 100 of these were attributed to Adkins 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
1987	Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore†	525 A.2d 628	588
1989	K & K Management, Inc. v. Chul Woo Lee· Concurrence†	557 A.2d 965	144
1989	State v. Faulkner†	552 A.2d 896	137
1989	Makovi v. Sherwin-Williams Co.· Dissent†	561 A.2d 179	133
1988	B.N. v. K.K†	312 Md. 135	124
1990	Morris v. Prince George's County†	573 A.2d 1346	117
1988	Stanley v. State†	542 A.2d 1267	98
1988	NCR Corp. v. Comptroller of the Treasury†	544 A.2d 764	96
1987	Maus v. State†	532 A.2d 1066	93
1990	Bowers v. State†	578 A.2d 734	92
1989	Murray International Freight Corp. v. Graham†	555 A.2d 502	86
1990	CBS Inc. v. Comptroller of the Treasury†	575 A.2d 324	85
1987	Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Inc. v. Department of Employment & Training†	522 A.2d 382	83
1988	Jones v. State· Concurrence†	535 A.2d 471	79
1986	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance†	516 A.2d 586	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William H. Adkins II on?: William H. Adkins II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

Sources

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