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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Delaware / Joined 1973 / Served to 1982

William Duffy

Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

William Duffy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1973–1982 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Supreme Court of Delaware	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Duffy authored 197 published opinions for the court (1973–1982), plus 7 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Moore v. Sizemore (629 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. 205 of these were attributed to Duffy 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
1979	Moore v. Sizemore†	405 A.2d 679	629
1978	Spence v. Funk	396 A.2d 967	333
1981	Hughes v. State†	437 A.2d 559	172
1977	Singer v. Magnavox Co.†	380 A.2d 969	161
1982	Hallowell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance†	443 A.2d 925	148
1978	Steigler v. Insurance Co. of North America†	384 A.2d 398	119
1975	Coleman v. Garrison†	349 A.2d 8	109
1977	Lynch v. Vickers Energy Corp.†	383 A.2d 278	94
1980	Sugarland Industries, Inc. v. Thomas†	420 A.2d 142	85
1982	Norton v. Poplos†	443 A.2d 1	72
1979	Wood v. Coastal States Gas Corp.†	401 A.2d 932	72
1981	Wright v. Moffitt†	437 A.2d 554	64
1978	Oliver B. Cannon & Son, Inc. v. Dorr-Oliver, Inc.†	394 A.2d 1160	63
1981	Lynch v. Vickers Energy Corp.	429 A.2d 497	61
1974	Hurtt v. Goleburn†	330 A.2d 134	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 212 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 Delaware reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was William Duffy on?: William Duffy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

Sources

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