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

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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1957 / Served to 1968

William R. Horney

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

William R. Horney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1898 · age 128
Tenure: 1957–1968 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Horney authored 294 published opinions for the court (1957–1968), plus 13 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Schowgurow v. State (239 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. 294 of these were attributed to Horney 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
1965	Schowgurow v. State· Dissent†	213 A.2d 475	239
1962	Giles v. State†	183 A.2d 359	117
1958	Casey v. Roman Catholic Archbishop†	143 A.2d 627	104
1960	Mulcahy v. State†	158 A.2d 80	87
1964	Gleaton v. State†	201 A.2d 353	75
1958	M & R Contractors & Builders, Inc. v. Michael†	138 A.2d 350	75
1961	Kujawa v. Baltimore Transit Co.†	167 A.2d 96	73
1958	Lusby v. State†	141 A.2d 893	72
1961	Heckrotte v. Riddle†	168 A.2d 879	66
1961	Connor v. State†	171 A.2d 699	62
1960	Hazel v. State†	157 A.2d 922	61
1959	Liberto v. Holfeldt†	155 A.2d 698	57
1966	State v. Barger†	220 A.2d 304	56
1959	Wright v. State†	150 A.2d 733	56
1963	Bird v. State†	190 A.2d 804	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 308 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 R. Horney on?: William R. Horney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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10 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).