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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1941 / Served to 1955

Ben C. Arnold

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Ben C. Arnold was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1955
Tenure: 1941–1955 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Arnold authored 376 published opinions for the court (1941–1955), plus 52 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Wimberly v. Deacon (62 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. 183 of these were attributed to Arnold 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
1943	Wimberly v. Deacon· Dissent	144 P.2d 447	62
1942	Parkhill Truck Co. v. Wilson	125 P.2d 203	57
1943	Board of Review v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.· Dissent	141 P.2d 69	42
1950	Town of Ames v. Wybrant· Concurrence†	220 P.2d 693	38
1944	Hadley v. Ross	155 P.2d 939	38
1942	Cummings v. Board of Education· Concurrence	125 P.2d 989	36
1947	School Dist. No. 25 v. Hodge†	199 Okla. 81	35
1942	Welborn v. Whitney· Concurrence	126 P.2d 263	35
1948	National Mutual Cas. Co. v. Britt· Dissent†	203 Okla. 175	34
1944	Mid-Continent Pipe Line Co. v. Seminole County Excise Board	146 P.2d 996	34
1953	Dobbs v. Board of County Com'rs of Oklahoma County· Concurrence†	257 P.2d 802	33
1943	Wilson v. City of Hollis· Dissent	142 P.2d 633	32
1941	Sunray Oil Co. v. Cortez Oil Co.· Concurrence	112 P.2d 792	32
1953	Tulsa MacHinery Co. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission	253 P.2d 1067	29
1948	Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Eaves†	200 Okla. 21	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 450 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 Oklahoma reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Ben C. Arnold on?: Ben C. Arnold was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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