Joseph Buffington (September 5, 1855 – October 21, 1947) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Joseph Buffington
Born 1855 in Kittanning, PA
Died 1947 in Pittsburgh, PA
FJC ID: 313
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 22/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 40/year
Pennsylvania Western District Court · 1892–1906U.S. Circuit Courts for the Third Circuit · 1906–1911Third Circuit Court of Appeals · 1906–1947
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now Judicial Conference of the United States)Member · 1922–1937
- Private practice, Kittanning, Pennsylvania1878–1892
Appointments
1906–1911 · Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)Term ended: Abolition of Court- 1906–1947 · Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)Term ended: Death
1892–1906 · Appointed by Benjamin Harrison (Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Read law1878
- Trinity College, Hartford, ConnecticutA.B. · 1875