How do judges of the Kansas Court of Appeals reach the bench?

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

Kansas Court of Appeals / Joined 1995 / Served to 2003

David S. Knudson

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

David S. Knudson was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2003 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Knudson authored 156 published opinions for the court (1986–2003), plus 3 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Robinson v. Shah (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. 105 of these were attributed to Knudson 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
1997	Robinson v. Shah· Concurrence†	936 P.2d 784	41
1998	Taylor v. McKune	962 P.2d 566	33
1997	Ramirez v. State†	931 P.2d 1265	26
1998	Campbell v. Kansas Department of Revenue†	962 P.2d 1150	25
2001	Northwest Arkansas Masonry, Inc. v. Summit Specialty Products, Inc.	31 P.3d 982	24
2002	State v. Haines†	39 P.3d 95	23
1999	Grimmett v. S & W Auto Sales Co.	988 P.2d 755	23
1999	State v. Barber†	988 P.2d 250	21
1998	St. Catherine Hospital of Garden City v. Rodriguez	971 P.2d 754	20
1998	Rose & Nelson v. Frank	956 P.2d 729	20
1996	State v. McBride†	930 P.2d 618	19
2001	State v. Bowles†	18 P.3d 250	16
1999	State v. Weas†	992 P.2d 221	16
1999	In the Interests of T.M.C.†	26 Kan. App. 2d 297	15
2002	Watkins v. McAllister†	59 P.3d 1021	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 164 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was David S. Knudson on?: David S. Knudson was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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