How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

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

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1970 / Served to 1983

Dwain D. Box

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Dwain D. Box was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1983 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Box authored 117 published opinions for the court (1972–1982). Most cited: Lindhorst v. Wright (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. 53 of these were attributed to Box 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
1980	Lindhorst v. Wright	616 P.2d 450	38
1975	Robertson v. LaCroix	534 P.2d 17	27
1975	Sopkin v. Premier Pontiac, Inc.	539 P.2d 1393	25
1976	Producers Grain Corporation v. Carroll	546 P.2d 285	23
1977	Quapaw Co. v. Varnell	566 P.2d 164	21
1976	Bennett v. City National Bank and Trust Company	549 P.2d 393	21
1974	Franks v. Tyler	531 P.2d 1067	20
1981	FARMERS STATE BANK IN AFTON v. Ballew	626 P.2d 337	19
1977	Radford-Shelton & Associates Dental Laboratory, Inc. v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc.	569 P.2d 506	19
1976	Beneficial Finance Co. of Norman v. Marshall	551 P.2d 315	18
1975	Sadler v. TJ Hughes Lumber Company, Inc.	537 P.2d 454	18
1972	Application of Kunneman	501 P.2d 910	18
1975	Smith v. American Flyers, Inc.	540 P.2d 1212	16
1980	Kimberly v. DeWitt	606 P.2d 612	15
1975	Osborn v. Commanche Cattle Industries, Inc.	545 P.2d 827	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 117 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 Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Dwain D. Box on?: Dwain D. Box was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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