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

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

Kansas Supreme Court / Joined 1971 / Served to 1988

David Prager

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

David Prager was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–2002
Tenure: 1971–1988 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Prager authored 428 published opinions for the court (1972–1988), plus 44 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Morriss v. Coleman Co. (192 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. 109 of these were attributed to Prager 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
1987	Morriss v. Coleman Co.	738 P.2d 841	192
1974	Henry Ex Rel. Henry v. Bauder	518 P.2d 362	163
1983	State v. Matlock	660 P.2d 945	152
1974	State v. Bly	523 P.2d 397	152
1974	Manzanares v. Bell· Concurrence†	522 P.2d 1291	150
1983	State v. Deskins· Dissent†	673 P.2d 1174	149
1974	Upland Mutual Insurance, Inc. v. Noel	519 P.2d 737	131
1980	Nelson v. Miller	607 P.2d 438	127
1976	State Ex Rel. Schneider v. Bennett	547 P.2d 786	109
1980	Nocktonick Ex Rel. Matson v. Nocktonick	611 P.2d 135	108
1988	Kansas Malpractice Victims Coalition v. Bell	757 P.2d 251	107
1982	State v. Puckett	640 P.2d 1198	104
1983	Pork Motel, Corp. v. Kansas Department of Health & Environment· Concurrence†	673 P.2d 1126	100
1973	Stayton v. Stayton	506 P.2d 1172	100
1981	State v. Warren	635 P.2d 1236	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 485 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 David Prager on?: David Prager was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).