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Marla J. Luckert

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Marla J. Luckert is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, serving since 2003. They previously served on the Kansas Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure
Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
2002Kansas Court of Appeals
2003Kansas Supreme Court

Education

Judicial Record

In our data, Luckert authored 260 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 18 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ward (1,316 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. 158 of these were attributed to Luckert 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

YearCaseCitationCited
2011State v. Ward256 P.3d 8011,316
2014State v. Phillips299 Kan. 479334
2014State v. Mosher299 Kan. 1325
2006State v. Edgar281 Kan. 30323
2006State v. Schoonover281 Kan. 453254
2013State v. Trotter296 Kan. 898243
2016State v. Logsdon304 Kan. 3219
2009Johnson v. State215 P.3d 575217
2006State v. Robinson· Concurrence281 Kan. 538205
2007State v. Thompson166 P.3d 1015203
2014State v. Williams299 Kan. 509181
2018In re Marriage of Williams417 P.3d 1033172
2016State v. Ryce303 Kan. 899172
2008State v. Johnson190 P.3d 207171
2008State Ex Rel. Morrison v. Sebelius179 P.3d 366165

Showing the 15 most-cited of 299 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

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