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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1902 / Served to 1903

William P. Potter

Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

William P. Potter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1902. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1857–1918
Tenure: 1902–1903 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1902	Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Education

Lafayette College

Judicial Record

In our data, Potter authored 60 published opinions for the court (1902–1903), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Philadelphia Ball Club, Ltd. v. Lajoie (89 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. 61 of these were attributed to Potter 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
1902	Philadelphia Ball Club, Ltd. v. Lajoie†	202 Pa. 210	89
1902	Entwistle v. Travelers Insurance†	202 Pa. 141	29
1903	Watkins v. Hughes†	206 Pa. 526	24
1902	Hughes v. Pennsylvania Railroad†	202 Pa. 222	21
1903	Raleigh's Estate†	206 Pa. 451	18
1903	Custer v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad†	206 Pa. 529	18
1903	Lehigh Valley Coal Co. v. Everhart· Dissent†	206 Pa. 118	15
1903	Kelley v. Shay†	206 Pa. 208	15
1902	Bright v. Allan†	203 Pa. 394	15
1902	Rowland v. Philadelphia†	202 Pa. 50	15
1903	Fitzpatrick v. Union Traction Co.†	206 Pa. 335	14
1903	Second National Bank v. Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co.†	206 Pa. 616	13
1902	Pitcairn v. Pitcairn†	201 Pa. 368	12
1903	Sprigg v. Commonwealth Title Insurance & Trust Co.†	206 Pa. 548	11
1903	Quakertown & Eastern Railroad v. Guarantors' Liability Indemnity Co.†	206 Pa. 350	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 61 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 P. Potter on?: William P. Potter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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1 year 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).