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

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

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1949 / Served to 1976

B. K. Roberts

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

B. K. Roberts was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1999
Tenure: 1949–1976 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Roberts authored 691 published opinions for the court (1949–1977), plus 40 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: North Shore Hospital, Inc. v. Barber (332 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. 262 of these were attributed to Roberts 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
1962	North Shore Hospital, Inc. v. Barber	143 So. 2d 849	332
1974	SLT Warehouse Company v. Webb	304 So. 2d 97	272
1974	Bernhardt v. State	288 So. 2d 490	182
1976	Nardone v. Reynolds	333 So. 2d 25	171
1957	Cortina v. Cortina	98 So. 2d 334	146
1965	Strazzulla v. Hendrick	177 So. 2d 1	124
1950	Kirksey v. Jernigan	45 So. 2d 188	118
1956	Younghans v. State	90 So. 2d 308	104
1954	Jones v. Florida Power Corp.	72 So. 2d 285	104
1968	State v. Young	217 So. 2d 567	103
1962	Victor Wine & Liquor, Inc. v. Beasley	141 So. 2d 581	102
1968	Lee Engineering & Construction Company v. Fellows	209 So. 2d 454	100
1959	Adams v. Culver	111 So. 2d 665	100
1976	Carter v. Sparkman	335 So. 2d 802	99
1950	Ross v. Gore	48 So. 2d 412	99

Showing the 15 most-cited of 752 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 Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was B. K. Roberts on?: B. K. Roberts was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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