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

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1921 / Served to 1945

Archibald G. McAlister

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Archibald G. McAlister was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1873 · age 153
Tenure: 1921–1945 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McAlister authored 325 published opinions for the court (1921–1944), plus 19 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: City of Phoenix v. Kasun (57 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. 70 of these were attributed to McAlister 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
1939	City of Phoenix v. Kasun· Dissent	97 P.2d 210	57
1941	Lutfy v. R. D. Roper & Sons Motor Co.	115 P.2d 161	55
1935	Dockery v. Central Arizona Light & Power Co.· Concurrence	45 P.2d 656	54
1923	Dorsey v. State†	25 Ariz. 139	52
1934	Adair v. Superior Court	33 P.2d 995	48
1938	Webb v. Crane Co.	80 P.2d 698	44
1936	Kerby v. Griffin· Dissent	62 P.2d 1131	41
1927	Hunt v. Callaghan· Dissent	257 P. 648	41
1921	Southwest Cotton Co. v. Ryan†	22 Ariz. 520	41
1934	Pickwick Stages Corp. v. Messinger	36 P.2d 168	40
1939	Shute v. Frohmiller	90 P.2d 998	38
1937	Stewart v. Crystal Coca-Cola Bottling Co.	68 P.2d 952	37
1935	White v. Moore	46 P.2d 1077	37
1934	Greber v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States	28 P.2d 817	37
1933	Schuster v. Schuster	23 P.2d 559	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 358 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 Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Archibald G. McAlister on?: Archibald G. McAlister was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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