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

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1964 / Served to 1974

Wilson K. Barnes Sr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Wilson K. Barnes Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1997
Tenure: 1964–1974 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barnes authored 320 published opinions for the court (1965–1974), plus 47 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: State Insurance Commissioner v. National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters (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. 372 of these were attributed to Barnes 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
1967	State Insurance Commissioner v. National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters· Dissent†	236 A.2d 282	158
1972	Bartholomey v. State· Dissent†	297 A.2d 696	115
1967	Bryniarski v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals†	230 A.2d 289	102
1968	Parish v. Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Ass'n†	242 A.2d 512	101
1973	County Council v. Investors Funding Corp.· Concurrence†	312 A.2d 225	98
1966	Hyson v. Montgomery County Council· Concurrence†	217 A.2d 578	95
1966	Rocks v. Brosius†	217 A.2d 531	92
1966	Woodlawn Area Citizens Ass'n v. Board of County Commissioners· Dissent†	216 A.2d 149	90
1973	Walston v. Sun Cab Co.†	298 A.2d 391	86
1972	Thomas v. Corso†	288 A.2d 379	81
1965	Maryland Medical Service, Inc. v. Carver†	209 A.2d 582	74
1966	Plitt v. Greenberg†	219 A.2d 237	73
1970	Central Cab Co. v. Clarke†	270 A.2d 662	71
1970	Duncan v. Koustenis†	271 A.2d 547	67
1970	James v. Goldberg†	261 A.2d 753	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 385 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 Wilson K. Barnes Sr. on?: Wilson K. Barnes Sr. 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).