How do judges of the Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Kansas Supreme Court / Joined 1928 / Served to 1945

Alfred West Harvey

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Alfred West Harvey was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1928. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1869–1958
Tenure: 1928–1945 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1928	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harvey authored 783 published opinions for the court (1928–1944), plus 53 dissents and 43 concurrences. Most cited: Wear v. Wear (68 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. 877 of these were attributed to Harvey 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
1930	Wear v. Wear†	130 Kan. 205	68
1933	Stout v. Gallemore†	138 Kan. 385	56
1941	Myers v. Shell Petroleum Corp.· Concurrence†	153 Kan. 287	55
1934	State Ex Rel. Boynton v. Perkins	138 Kan. 899	50
1928	Lindholm v. Nelson†	125 Kan. 223	50
1934	State v. Hooper†	140 Kan. 481	48
1934	Rush v. Empire Oil & Refining Co.†	140 Kan. 198	42
1932	Woltz v. First Trust Co.†	135 Kan. 253	42
1934	Koster v. Matson· Concurrence†	139 Kan. 124	41
1941	Bradley v. Conway Springs Bottling Co.†	154 Kan. 282	37
1934	State ex rel. Boynton v. State Highway Commission†	138 Kan. 913	37
1933	State ex rel. Boynton v. Board of Education†	137 Kan. 451	37
1931	Honn v. Elliott†	132 Kan. 454	36
1935	State v. Badders†	141 Kan. 683	35
1932	Fair v. Golden Rule Refining Co.†	134 Kan. 623	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 879 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 Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Alfred West Harvey on?: Alfred West Harvey was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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