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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 1983 / Served to 1995

Charles M. Leibson

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Charles M. Leibson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–1995
Tenure: 1983–1995 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Leibson authored 190 published opinions for the court (1983–1995), plus 172 dissents and 74 concurrences. Most cited: Western Baptist Hospital v. Kelly (434 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. 301 of these were attributed to Leibson 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
1992	Western Baptist Hospital v. Kelly	827 S.W.2d 685	434
1986	Special Fund v. Francis· Concurrence†	708 S.W.2d 641	290
1985	Paintsville Hospital Co. v. Rose	683 S.W.2d 255	285
1989	Rose v. Council for Better Education, Inc.· Dissent†	790 S.W.2d 186	284
1983	Gross v. Commonwealth	648 S.W.2d 853	274
1993	Wittmer v. Jones	864 S.W.2d 885	243
1992	Meyers v. Chapman Printing Co., Inc.	840 S.W.2d 814	230
1984	Hilen v. Hays	673 S.W.2d 713	213
1985	Grzyb v. Evans	700 S.W.2d 399	207
1983	Firestone Textile Co. Division v. Meadows	666 S.W.2d 730	196
1991	James Graham Brown Foundation, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	814 S.W.2d 273	179
1984	Ice v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	667 S.W.2d 671	168
1986	McClellan v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	715 S.W.2d 464	160
1987	Slaughter v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	744 S.W.2d 407	159
1990	Humana of Kentucky, Inc. v. Seitz· Dissent†	796 S.W.2d 1	139

Showing the 15 most-cited of 436 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Charles M. Leibson on?: Charles M. Leibson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

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