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New Jersey Supreme Court / Joined 1971 / Served to 1979

Worrall Fredrick Mountain

Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court

Worrall Fredrick Mountain was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–1992
Tenure: 1971–1979 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	New Jersey Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mountain authored 79 published opinions for the court (1971–1979), plus 9 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Lopez v. Swyer (502 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. 18 of these were attributed to Mountain 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
1973	Lopez v. Swyer	300 A.2d 563	502
1974	Rothman v. Rothman	320 A.2d 496	314
1973	Busik v. Levine· Dissent†	307 A.2d 571	280
1972	Rosenberg v. Town of North Bergen	293 A.2d 662	254
1975	Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel· Concurrence†	67 N.J. 151	223
1974	Painter v. Painter	320 A.2d 484	215
1977	Smith v. Smith	371 A.2d 1	170
1972	NJ Builders, Owners and Managers Association v. Blair	288 A.2d 855	158
1975	Stern v. Stern	331 A.2d 257	146
1975	Terminal Construction Corp. v. Atlantic County Sewerage Authority	341 A.2d 327	127
1978	Helmsley v. Borough of Fort Lee	394 A.2d 65	121
1977	Vreeland v. Byrne	370 A.2d 825	118
1972	State v. Thomas	294 A.2d 57	104
1979	State v. Baker· Dissent†	405 A.2d 368	101
1973	Berzito v. Gambino	308 A.2d 17	93

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 New Jersey Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Worrall Fredrick Mountain on?: Worrall Fredrick Mountain was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Sources

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