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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1949 / Served to 1967

Harry Lee Stuart Halley

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Harry Lee Stuart Halley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1894 · age 132
Tenure: 1949–1967 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Halley authored 601 published opinions for the court (1949–1967), plus 114 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. State Election Board of the Oklahoma (77 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. 331 of these were attributed to Halley 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
1962	Brown v. State Election Board of the Oklahoma· Dissent†	369 P.2d 140	77
1954	Scoufos v. Fuller	280 P.2d 720	61
1952	Capitol Steel & Iron Co. v. Fuller· Dissent†	245 P.2d 1134	61
1955	Board of County Commissioners v. Warram	285 P.2d 1034	60
1952	Stapleton v. Holt	250 P.2d 451	54
1962	Fawcett Publications, Inc. v. Morris· Dissent†	377 P.2d 42	49
1957	Rees v. Briscoe	315 P.2d 758	45
1965	Henryetta Construction Co. v. Harris· Dissent†	408 P.2d 522	43
1965	Beatty v. Dixon	408 P.2d 339	41
1951	Anderson-Prichard Oil Corp. v. Corporation Commission	241 P.2d 363	40
1961	Liberty Plan Co. v. Francis T. Smith Lumber Co.	360 P.2d 500	39
1950	Mabry v. Baird· Dissent†	219 P.2d 234	39
1966	Isaacs v. Oklahoma City	437 P.2d 229	37
1954	Williams v. Bailey· Dissent†	268 P.2d 868	36
1950	Cities Service Gas Co. v. Peerless Oil & Gas Co.· Dissent†	220 P.2d 279	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 726 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 Harry Lee Stuart Halley on?: Harry Lee Stuart Halley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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18 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).