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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1947 / Served to 1951

John E. Luttrell

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

John E. Luttrell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1889 · age 137
Tenure: 1947–1951 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Luttrell authored 177 published opinions for the court (1947–1951), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Mabry v. Baird (39 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. 122 of these were attributed to Luttrell 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
1950	Mabry v. Baird	219 P.2d 234	39
1951	Adwon v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n, Inc.	228 P.2d 376	30
1950	Adams v. Hobbs	226 P.2d 913	30
1948	Allen v. Allen†	201 Okla. 442	28
1951	Hill v. McQueen· Concurrence†	230 P.2d 483	26
1949	Shell Oil Co., Inc. v. Thomas†	202 Okla. 190	25
1949	Adams v. City of Anadarko†	202 Okla. 72	25
1949	Askins v. British-American Oil Producing Co.†	201 Okla. 209	25
1951	Moyer v. Cordell	228 P.2d 645	24
1949	Chaney v. Reddin†	201 Okla. 264	24
1950	Oklahoma Turnpike Auth. v. DIST. COURT OF LINCOLN CTY.	222 P.2d 514	23
1948	Incorporated Town of Pittsburg v. Cochrane†	200 Okla. 497	23
1948	Special Indemnity Fund v. McFee†	200 Okla. 288	19
1951	Edmonds v. Skelly Oil Co.	231 P.2d 360	18
1951	West Edmond Salt Water Disposal Ass'n v. Rosecrans	226 P.2d 965	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 180 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 E. Luttrell on?: John E. Luttrell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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4 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).