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

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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1972 / Served to 1993

John B. Doolin

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

John B. Doolin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1993
Tenure: 1972–1993 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doolin authored 341 published opinions for the court (1973–1992), plus 52 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Kirkland v. General Motors Corporation (340 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. 142 of these were attributed to Doolin 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
1974	Kirkland v. General Motors Corporation	521 P.2d 1353	340
1991	Dodson v. St. Paul Insurance Co.	812 P.2d 372	190
1980	Abel v. Tisdale	619 P.2d 608	141
1984	Ross Ex Rel. Ross v. City of Shawnee	683 P.2d 535	139
1980	McCormack v. Oklahoma Publishing Co.	613 P.2d 737	132
1980	Draper v. State· Concurrence†	621 P.2d 1142	123
1978	Matter of Chad S.	580 P.2d 983	121
1989	Davis v. Leitner	782 P.2d 924	117
1990	Kirschstein v. Haynes· Dissent†	788 P.2d 941	101
1974	Northrip v. Montgomery Ward & Co.	529 P.2d 489	91
1980	Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma County v. Oklahoma City Federation of Teachers, Local 2309· Concurrence†	612 P.2d 719	88
1977	Loyal Order of Moose, Lodge 1785 v. Cavaness	563 P.2d 143	88
1979	Pryse Monument Co. v. District Court of Kay County· Dissent†	595 P.2d 435	85
1985	Funnell v. Jones	737 P.2d 105	81
1980	Smith v. United States Gypsum Co.	612 P.2d 251	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 421 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 John B. Doolin on?: John B. Doolin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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21 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).