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 1994 / Active

Larry E. Joplin

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Larry E. Joplin is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Joplin authored 322 published opinions for the court (1995–2018), plus 9 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Delong v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (22 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. 188 of these were attributed to Joplin 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
1998	Delong v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Department of Public Safety	1998 OK CIV APP 32	22
2000	Bittle v. Oklahoma City University	2000 OK CIV APP 66	17
1995	Craft v. Chopra	907 P.2d 1109	17
1997	Matter of Adoption of Baby Girl M.	942 P.2d 235	16
2014	Waldrop v. Hennessey Utilities Authority†	348 P.3d 213	14
2013	L.E. Jones Drilling Co. v. Hodge†	315 P.3d 1025	14
2000	Williams v. State Ex Rel. Department of Transportation	2000 OK CIV APP 19	14
2013	Khanpher v. State†	298 P.3d 544	13
1995	Thomas v. Vertigo, Inc.	900 P.2d 458	13
2006	Trice v. Burress	2006 OK CIV APP 79	12
2004	Transwestern Publishing, L.L.C. v. Langdon	2004 OK CIV APP 21	12
2013	Lopez v. Rollins· Concurrence†	303 P.3d 911	11
2006	In re the Adoption of Baby A.†	131 P.3d 153	10
2003	Edwards v. McKee	2003 OK CIV APP 59	10
1998	Vela v. Hope Lumber & Supply Co.	1998 OK CIV APP 162	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 335 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 is Larry E. Joplin on?: Larry E. Joplin is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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31 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).