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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1975 / Served to 1980

William L. Rhodes

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

William L. Rhodes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1918 · age 108
Tenure: 1975–1980 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rhodes authored 153 published opinions for the court (1966–1980), plus 11 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Young Ex Rel. Estate of Young v. Tide Craft, Inc. (91 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. 43 of these were attributed to Rhodes 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
1978	Young Ex Rel. Estate of Young v. Tide Craft, Inc.	242 S.E.2d 671	91
1977	Klutts Resort Realty, Inc. v. Down'Round Development Corp.	232 S.E.2d 20	75
1980	Hercules Inc. v. South Carolina Tax Commission	262 S.E.2d 45	65
1975	Davenport v. Davenport	220 S.E.2d 228	64
1977	Hughes Ex Rel. Hughes v. Children's Clinic, P. A.	237 S.E.2d 753	59
1978	Law v. Richland County School District No. 1	243 S.E.2d 192	57
1979	State v. Roper	260 S.E.2d 705	52
1976	State v. Craig	227 S.E.2d 306	47
1979	State v. Gilbert· Dissent†	258 S.E.2d 890	43
1977	State v. Atchison	235 S.E.2d 294	41
1977	Brown Ex Rel. Estate of Brown v. Anderson County Hospital Ass'n	234 S.E.2d 873	40
1978	State v. Hendrix	244 S.E.2d 503	39
1980	Hamilton v. CCM, Inc.	263 S.E.2d 378	38
1977	Tucker Ex Rel. Tucker v. Reynolds	233 S.E.2d 402	38
1978	Howard v. Holiday Inns, Inc.	246 S.E.2d 880	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 165 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 South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was William L. Rhodes on?: William L. Rhodes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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