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

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 1969 / Served to 1995

Eino M. Jacobson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Eino M. Jacobson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1995 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Jacobson authored 794 published opinions for the court (1969–1995), plus 22 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bortz (145 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. 294 of these were attributed to Jacobson 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
1991	State v. Bortz	821 P.2d 236	145
1994	State v. Kiper	887 P.2d 592	124
1969	Cluff v. Farmers Insurance Exchange	460 P.2d 666	79
1994	Nelson v. Phoenix Resort Corp.	888 P.2d 1375	75
1992	Vo v. Superior Court	836 P.2d 408	74
1984	In the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-5209 & No. JS-4963	692 P.2d 1027	68
1988	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-6831	748 P.2d 785	62
1993	AROK Construction Co. v. Indian Construction Services· Dissent†	848 P.2d 870	61
1977	Stephens v. Industrial Commission	559 P.2d 212	61
1977	Smith v. Cada	562 P.2d 390	59
1993	Chandler Medical Building Partners v. Chandler Dental Group	855 P.2d 787	57
1991	Walter v. Simmons	818 P.2d 214	56
1971	Mayer v. Good Samaritan Hospital	482 P.2d 497	56
1976	State v. Fuentes· Dissent†	549 P.2d 224	47
1972	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County, Juvenile Action No. J—72804	504 P.2d 501	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 838 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 Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Eino M. Jacobson on?: Eino M. Jacobson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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