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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1937 / Served to 1978

Denver N. Davison

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Denver N. Davison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1983
Tenure: 1937–1978 · 41 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Davison authored 1,328 published opinions for the court (1937–1978), plus 75 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Breeden v. League Services Corp. (129 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. 384 of these were attributed to Davison 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
1978	Breeden v. League Services Corp.	575 P.2d 1374	129
1976	Keel v. MFA Insurance Company· Dissent†	553 P.2d 153	128
1938	Patterson v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.	77 P.2d 83	79
1948	Special Indemnity Fund v. Reynolds†	199 Okla. 570	73
1977	City National Bank & Trust Co. of Oklahoma City v. Owens†	565 P.2d 4	71
1960	Application of Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Auth.†	355 P.2d 1028	71
1975	Story v. Hefner· Dissent†	540 P.2d 562	67
1938	Courtney v. Courtney	87 P.2d 660	67
1977	Umholtz v. City of Tulsa	565 P.2d 15	65
1966	Cameron v. Corporation Commission	414 P.2d 266	62
1952	Capitol Steel & Iron Co. v. Fuller	245 P.2d 1134	61
1966	Seventeen Hundred Peoria, Inc. v. City of Tulsa	422 P.2d 840	58
1966	Agee v. Gant	412 P.2d 155	54
1939	Associated Industries of Oklahoma v. Industrial Welfare Commission	90 P.2d 899	51
1977	Weaver v. Laub	574 P.2d 609	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,428 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 Oklahoma reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Denver N. Davison on?: Denver N. Davison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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