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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1949 / Served to 1955

Cecil Talmadge O'Neal

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Cecil Talmadge O'Neal was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1891 · age 135
Tenure: 1949–1955 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Neal authored 161 published opinions for the court (1950–1955), plus 18 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Palmer Oil Corp. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (41 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. 182 of these were attributed to O'Neal 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
1951	Palmer Oil Corp. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.· Dissent†	231 P.2d 997	41
1950	Town of Ames v. Wybrant· Dissent†	220 P.2d 693	38
1950	Wood Oil Co. v. Corporation Commission· Concurrence†	239 P.2d 1023	35
1953	Dobbs v. Board of County Com'rs of Oklahoma County· Dissent†	257 P.2d 802	33
1951	Adwon v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n, Inc.· Dissent†	228 P.2d 376	30
1951	F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Todd†	231 P.2d 681	30
1950	Board of County Com'rs of Tulsa County v. Mullins†	217 P.2d 835	30
1952	Superior Oil Co. v. Oklahoma Corporation Commission†	242 P.2d 454	26
1954	Acme Material Company v. Wheeler†	278 P.2d 234	25
1950	Stafford v. State Election Board†	218 P.2d 617	24
1952	Sanders v. C. P. Carter Const. Co.†	244 P.2d 822	23
1954	Fuller Ex Rel. Fuller v. Neundorf†	278 P.2d 836	21
1953	Oklahoma Turnpike Authority v. Dye†	256 P.2d 438	21
1952	Watkins v. McComber†	256 P.2d 158	21
1951	Carter Oil Co. v. State†	240 P.2d 787	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 182 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 Cecil Talmadge O'Neal on?: Cecil Talmadge O'Neal was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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6 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).