How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

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

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1993 / Served to 2005

Joe C. Taylor

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Joe C. Taylor was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2005 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 66 published opinions for the court (1993–2005), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: N.C. Corff Partnership, Ltd. v. OXY USA, Inc. (59 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. 34 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1996	N.C. Corff Partnership, Ltd. v. OXY USA, Inc.	929 P.2d 288	59
2001	Atwood v. Atwood· Dissent†	2001 OK CIV APP 48	49
2002	Miner v. Mid-America Door Co.	2003 OK CIV APP 32	22
1999	Sturgeon v. Retherford Publications, Inc.	1999 OK CIV APP 78	22
2001	Etter v. Etter	2001 OK CIV APP 18	18
2001	In Re Adoption of SW· Concurrence†	2002 OK CIV APP 26	16
2001	Elmore v. Doenges Bros. Ford, Inc.	2001 OK CIV APP 27	14
1996	Bank of Oklahoma, N.A. v. Briscoe	911 P.2d 311	14
2001	Tice v. Pennington· Dissent†	2001 OK CIV APP 95	12
1995	Bakhsh v. JACRRC Enterprises, Inc.	895 P.2d 746	11
2003	Worsham v. Nix	2004 OK CIV APP 2	10
2002	Young v. Bob Howard Automotive, Inc.	2002 OK CIV APP 80	10
1999	Wilson v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety	2000 OK CIV APP 28	10
1997	Guthrie v. Independent School District No. I-30 of Adair County	1998 OK CIV APP 47	10
2003	In Re TL	2003 OK CIV APP 49	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 72 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 Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Joe C. Taylor on?: Joe C. Taylor was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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