How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas / Joined 1979 / Served to 1980

James H. Pilkinton

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

James H. Pilkinton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1980 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pilkinton authored 83 published opinions for the court (1979–1980), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Paulino v. Daniels (44 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. 75 of these were attributed to Pilkinton 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	Paulino v. Daniels	599 S.W.2d 760	44
1980	Willis Johnson Co. v. Daniels	601 S.W.2d 890	27
1980	Bunny Bread v. Shipman	591 S.W.2d 692	27
1980	J. & G. CABINETS v. Hennington	600 S.W.2d 916	26
1980	Watkins v. Dudgeon	606 S.W.2d 78	21
1979	Smith v. State	587 S.W.2d 50	21
1980	Stagecoach Motel v. Krause	593 S.W.2d 495	20
1980	Don Gilstrap Builders, Inc. v. Jackson	601 S.W.2d 270	17
1980	Pyles v. Triple F. Feeds of Texas, Inc.†	270 Ark. 729	15
1980	Sunbeam Corp. v. Bates	609 S.W.2d 102	13
1980	Bank of Quitman v. Phillips†	270 Ark. 53	13
1980	Warren v. Warren†	270 Ark. 163	11
1980	Fleming v. Wal-Mart, Inc.†	268 Ark. 559	11
1980	Williams v. National Youth Corps in School Programs	600 S.W.2d 27	10
1980	Burdess v. Arkansas Power & Light Co.†	268 Ark. 901	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 88 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was James H. Pilkinton on?: James H. Pilkinton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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