How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1891 / Served to 1903

Young John Pope

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Young John Pope was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1891. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1841–1911
Tenure: 1891–1903 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1891	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Education

Furman University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pope authored 789 published opinions for the court (1892–1909), plus 20 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: Finley v. Cartwright (37 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. 401 of these were attributed to Pope 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
1899	Finley v. Cartwright· Concurrence†	55 S.C. 198	37
1906	State v. Rowell	56 S.E. 23	34
1903	Carson v. Southern Ry.	46 S.E. 525	33
1893	Utsey v. Charleston, R. R.†	38 S.C. 399	33
1903	Bodie v. Char. & West. Car. Ry. Co.· Dissent	44 S.E. 943	27
1901	Pickett v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.· Dissent	38 S.E. 160	27
1902	Edwards v. Southern Ry.	41 S.E. 458	26
1907	State Ex Rel. Birchmore v. State Board of Canvassers	59 S.E. 145	25
1907	Jennings v. Talbert	58 S.E. 420	25
1908	State v. Reeder	60 S.E. 434	24
1904	Charleston & Western Car. Ry. Co. v. Reynolds	48 S.E. 476	24
1906	Nickles v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.	54 S.E. 255	23
1907	Ware Shoals Mfg. Co. v. Jones	58 S.E. 811	22
1900	Norris v. Hartford Fire Ins.†	57 S.C. 358	21
1892	State v. Howard†	35 S.C. 197	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 833 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 Young John Pope on?: Young John Pope was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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12 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).