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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania / Joined 1980 / Served to 2005

Zoran Popovich

Judge, Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Zoran Popovich was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1980–2005 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Superior Court of Pennsylvania	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Popovich authored 1,155 published opinions for the court (1981–2006), plus 47 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Adoption of M.E.P. (886 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. 447 of these were attributed to Popovich 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
2003	In Re Adoption of M.E.P.†	825 A.2d 1266	886
2003	Commonwealth v. Pollard	832 A.2d 517	470
1999	Corestates Bank, N.A. v. Cutillo	723 A.2d 1053	347
2003	In re C.M.S.†	832 A.2d 457	195
1999	Mitchell v. Moore	729 A.2d 1200	174
2002	Commonwealth v. Cunningham	805 A.2d 566	169
1992	Bash v. Bell Telephone Co.	601 A.2d 825	169
1997	Estate of Swift Ex Rel. Swift v. Northeastern Hospital of Philadelphia	690 A.2d 719	166
2005	Commonwealth v. Bricker	882 A.2d 1008	149
1983	Praisner v. Stocker	459 A.2d 1255	142
1996	Commonwealth v. Haskins	677 A.2d 328	140
2005	Commonwealth v. Brewer	876 A.2d 1029	129
1994	Commonwealth v. Swerdlow	636 A.2d 1173	123
1996	Smathers v. Smathers	670 A.2d 1159	119
2002	Commonwealth v. Khalil†	806 A.2d 415	115

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,222 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 Superior Court of Pennsylvania reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Zoran Popovich on?: Zoran Popovich was a Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Sources

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