How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

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

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1986 / Served to 2008

Barry J. Stone

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Barry J. Stone was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2008 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Stone authored 969 published opinions for the court (1981–2008), plus 90 dissents and 74 concurrences. Most cited: Giles v. State (81 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. 574 of these were attributed to Stone 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
2002	Giles v. State	831 So. 2d 1263	81
1998	Hart v. State†	761 So. 2d 334	62
2002	Scheman-Gonzalez v. Saber Mfg. Co.	816 So. 2d 1133	37
2002	Callaway Land & Cattle Co., Inc. v. Banyon Lakes C. Corp.	831 So. 2d 204	35
2002	Anglia Jacs & Co., Inc. v. Dubin	830 So. 2d 169	32
1993	Metcalf v. State	614 So. 2d 548	28
2003	Reyes v. State	854 So. 2d 816	27
1999	E.C. v. State†	724 So. 2d 1243	27
1987	Publix Super Markets, Inc. v. Schmidt	509 So. 2d 977	27
2003	Sublime, Inc. v. Boardman's Inc.	849 So. 2d 470	26
1997	Nelson v. State	688 So. 2d 971	26
1988	State v. Avery	531 So. 2d 182	26
2001	Maxwell v. First United Bank	782 So. 2d 931	25
1981	Robbins v. Graham	404 So. 2d 769	25
2003	LRX, INC. v. Horizon Associates Joint Venture	842 So. 2d 881	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,134 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 Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Barry J. Stone on?: Barry J. Stone was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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