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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas / Joined 1983 / Served to 1990

Donald Corbin

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Donald Corbin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1990 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Corbin authored 222 published opinions for the court (1981–1990), plus 15 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Feagin v. Everett (38 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. 191 of these were attributed to Corbin 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
1983	Feagin v. Everett	652 S.W.2d 839	38
1988	College Club Dairy v. Carr	756 S.W.2d 128	37
1988	Lofton v. Lofton· Concurrence†	745 S.W.2d 635	34
1988	Dickson v. Delhi Seed Co.	760 S.W.2d 382	33
1981	Bankston v. Prime West Corp.	610 S.W.2d 586	32
1984	Central Maloney, Inc. v. York	663 S.W.2d 196	29
1989	Hodges v. Hodges	770 S.W.2d 164	28
1985	Baggett v. State	690 S.W.2d 362	26
1986	Anderson v. Anderson	715 S.W.2d 218	25
1985	Gerber Products v. McDonald	691 S.W.2d 879	23
1990	Powell v. Miller	785 S.W.2d 37	21
1988	Marrable v. Southern LP Gas, Inc.	751 S.W.2d 15	20
1990	Grace Drilling Co. v. Director of Labor	790 S.W.2d 907	19
1988	Manuel v. McCorkle· Dissent†	749 S.W.2d 341	19
1987	Henson v. Club Products	736 S.W.2d 290	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 246 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 Court of Appeals of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Donald Corbin on?: Donald Corbin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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