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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1932 / Served to 1950

William B. Linn

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

William B. Linn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1932. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1950
Tenure: 1932–1950 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1932	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Judicial Record

In our data, Linn authored 707 published opinions for the court (1932–1950), plus 13 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Tranter v. Alleghency County Co. Authority (158 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. 24 of these were attributed to Linn 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
1934	Tranter v. Alleghency County Co. Authority	173 A. 289	158
1949	Commonwealth v. Almeida· Concurrence	68 A.2d 595	111
1950	Murray v. Philadelphia†	364 Pa. 157	107
1948	Jones Et Vir v. Williams· Dissent	58 A.2d 57	100
1933	Esenwein v. Esenwein	167 A. 350	93
1939	Hodgson v. Bigelow· Dissent	7 A.2d 338	91
1932	Commonwealth. v. Garramone	161 A. 733	76
1947	Murray v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.	58 A.2d 323	73
1944	Burtt Will· Dissent	44 A.2d 670	69
1939	Lighton v. Abington Township	9 A.2d 609	69
1934	Dougherty, Tr. v. Philadelphia	171 A. 583	69
1939	Horosko v. Mt. Pl't Twp. S. Dist	6 A.2d 866	68
1943	Commonwealth v. Lettrich	31 A.2d 155	66
1943	Commonwealth Ex Rel. Esenwein v. Esenwein	35 A.2d 335	64
1939	Garrett's Estate	6 A.2d 858	64

Showing the 15 most-cited of 727 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 Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was William B. Linn on?: William B. Linn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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