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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1927 / Served to 1948

Edgar L. McHaney

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Edgar L. McHaney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1927. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1876 · age 150
Tenure: 1927–1948 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1927	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, McHaney authored 1,230 published opinions for the court (1927–1948), plus 33 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Bush v. Martineau (87 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. 7 of these were attributed to McHaney 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
1927	Bush v. Martineau	295 S.W. 9	87
1938	Rambo v. Rambo	114 S.W.2d 468	76
1935	Wiseman v. Phillips	84 S.W.2d 91	47
1947	Cernauskas v. Fletcher	201 S.W.2d 999	43
1938	City of Fort Smith v. Van Zandt	122 S.W.2d 187	41
1935	Hogan v. State	86 S.W.2d 931	41
1947	Cassen v. Cassen· Dissent	201 S.W.2d 585	39
1935	State Medical Board v. Rodgers	79 S.W.2d 83	35
1938	Page v. McKinley	118 S.W.2d 235	34
1934	Wilson v. State	68 S.W.2d 100	33
1938	Beaty v. Humphrey, State Auditor	115 S.W.2d 559	32
1932	Missouri State Life Insurance v. Snow	47 S.W.2d 600	32
1942	Noble v. Davis	161 S.W.2d 189	31
1942	City of Little Rock v. Smith	163 S.W.2d 705	30
1927	Polk County v. Mena Star Co.	298 S.W. 1002	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,267 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Edgar L. McHaney on?: Edgar L. McHaney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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