How do judges of the Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Kansas Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1943

Hugo Kyle Allen

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Hugo Kyle Allen was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1873–1959
Tenure: 1937–1943 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Allen authored 240 published opinions for the court (1937–1943), plus 22 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Sharp v. Sharp (72 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. 272 of these were attributed to Allen 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
1941	Sharp v. Sharp†	154 Kan. 175	72
1942	Yeager v. Yeager· Dissent†	155 Kan. 734	40
1941	State ex rel. Wheat v. Moore†	154 Kan. 193	36
1937	Elliott v. Behner†	146 Kan. 827	32
1939	Hurla ex rel. Hurla v. Capper Publications, Inc.†	149 Kan. 369	31
1942	Dyal v. Brunt· Concurrence†	155 Kan. 141	28
1940	Beverlin v. First National Bank†	151 Kan. 307	27
1939	Jacobsen v. Woerner†	149 Kan. 598	26
1939	Hardesty v. Hardesty†	150 Kan. 271	25
1942	Behee ex rel. Cole v. Beem· Dissent†	156 Kan. 115	24
1940	Carolene Products Co. v. Mohler†	152 Kan. 2	24
1940	Moseman v. L. M. Penwell Undertaking Co.†	151 Kan. 610	24
1939	Rupp v. Jacobs†	149 Kan. 712	24
1937	Farmer v. Central Mutual Insurance†	145 Kan. 951	24
1939	Fisher v. Central Surety & Insurance†	149 Kan. 38	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 272 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 Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Hugo Kyle Allen on?: Hugo Kyle Allen was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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