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

Kansas Supreme Court / Joined 1955 / Served to 1965

Clair E. Robb

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Clair E. Robb was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1965
Tenure: 1955–1965 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Robb authored 330 published opinions for the court (1948–1965), plus 13 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Fadely (112 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. 120 of these were attributed to Robb 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
1957	State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Fadely· Concurrence†	308 P.2d 537	112
1963	Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. State Corp. Commission· Dissent†	386 P.2d 515	81
1964	Gilmore v. Superior Oil Co.	388 P.2d 602	62
1957	Bennett v. Conrady	305 P.2d 823	50
1957	Jameson v. Farmers Mutual Automobile Insurance	309 P.2d 394	46
1962	Koppel v. City of Fairway· Dissent†	371 P.2d 113	39
1957	Madison v. Key Work Clothes, Inc.· Concurrence†	318 P.2d 991	39
1957	Rule v. Cheeseman	317 P.2d 472	39
1957	Kleppe v. Prawl	313 P.2d 227	38
1957	Goheen v. Graber· Dissent†	309 P.2d 636	35
1958	State v. Majors	323 P.2d 917	31
1964	Esfeld Trucking, Inc. v. Metropolitan Insurance Co.	392 P.2d 107	29
1961	Adams v. City of Arkansas City· Concurrence†	362 P.2d 829	29
1957	Franks v. State Highway Commission	319 P.2d 535	26
1957	Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Aetna Insurance	308 P.2d 119	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 351 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 Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Clair E. Robb on?: Clair E. Robb was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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