How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1990 / Served to 1990

Dale Price

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Dale Price was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1924 · age 102
Tenure: 1990–1990

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Price authored 35 published opinions for the court (1990–1994), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Finn v. McCuen (433 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. 26 of these were attributed to Price 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
1990	Finn v. McCuen· Concurrence†	798 S.W.2d 34	433
1990	Tarentino v. State	786 S.W.2d 584	41
1990	Cherry v. State	791 S.W.2d 354	35
1990	Schuh v. Roberson	788 S.W.2d 740	33
1990	Scroggins v. Scroggins· Dissent†	790 S.W.2d 157	32
1990	Cozad v. State· Dissent†	792 S.W.2d 606	31
1990	Merchants & Planters Bank & Trust Co. v. Massey	790 S.W.2d 889	26
1990	Sullivan v. Edens· Concurrence†	801 S.W.2d 32	25
1990	St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. White	788 S.W.2d 483	24
1990	Taylor v. Phillips	801 S.W.2d 303	22
1990	Traylor v. State	801 S.W.2d 267	20
1990	Killam v. Texas Oil & Gas Corp.	798 S.W.2d 419	20
1990	State v. Sherman	796 S.W.2d 339	20
1990	Shamlin v. Shuffield	787 S.W.2d 687	20
1990	Matter of Adoption of Parsons· Concurrence†	791 S.W.2d 681	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Dale Price on?: Dale Price was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1990. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).