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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Washington Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1951

John Robinson

Justice, Washington Supreme Court

John Robinson was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1951
Tenure: 1937–1951 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Washington Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Robinson authored 418 published opinions for the court (1937–1951), plus 34 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Washington Toll Bridge Authority v. Yelle (78 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. 24 of these were attributed to Robinson 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
1948	State Ex Rel. Washington Toll Bridge Authority v. Yelle· Dissent	200 P.2d 467	78
1941	In Re the Eligibility of the Persons Employed at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.· Concurrence	110 P.2d 877	73
1947	Griffiths v. Henry Broderick, Inc.	182 P.2d 18	70
1937	Acme Finance Co. v. Huse	73 P.2d 341	65
1946	Roediger v. Cullen	175 P.2d 669	58
1945	State v. Brunn	154 P.2d 826	58
1946	State v. Portee	170 P.2d 326	55
1941	State Ex Rel. Todd v. Yelle	110 P.2d 162	55
1950	In Re the Estate of Bordeaux	225 P.2d 433	51
1942	Kuhnle v. Department of Labor & Industries	120 P.2d 1003	50
1949	Visser v. Nooksack Valley School District No. 506· Concurrence	207 P.2d 198	45
1943	Mitchell v. Consolidated School District No. 201· Dissent	135 P.2d 79	44
1942	State Ex Rel. Gebhardt v. Superior Court· Dissent	131 P.2d 943	44
1940	Sheridan v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.· Dissent	100 P.2d 1024	43
1945	In Re Grieve	158 P.2d 73	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 473 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 Washington Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was John Robinson on?: John Robinson was a Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.

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