Marla J. Luckert
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
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Kansas Court of Appeals | – | – |
| 2003 | Kansas 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
| Year | Case | Citation | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | State v. Ward | 256 P.3d 801 | 1,316 |
| 2014 | State v. Phillips† | 299 Kan. 479 | 334 |
| 2014 | State v. Mosher† | 299 Kan. 1 | 325 |
| 2006 | State v. Edgar | 281 Kan. 30 | 323 |
| 2006 | State v. Schoonover | 281 Kan. 453 | 254 |
| 2013 | State v. Trotter† | 296 Kan. 898 | 243 |
| 2016 | State v. Logsdon† | 304 Kan. 3 | 219 |
| 2009 | Johnson v. State | 215 P.3d 575 | 217 |
| 2006 | State v. Robinson· Concurrence† | 281 Kan. 538 | 205 |
| 2007 | State v. Thompson | 166 P.3d 1015 | 203 |
| 2014 | State v. Williams† | 299 Kan. 509 | 181 |
| 2018 | In re Marriage of Williams† | 417 P.3d 1033 | 172 |
| 2016 | State v. Ryce† | 303 Kan. 899 | 172 |
| 2008 | State v. Johnson | 190 P.3d 207 | 171 |
| 2008 | State Ex Rel. Morrison v. Sebelius | 179 P.3d 366 | 165 |
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.
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Sources
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- CourtListener / Free Law Project
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
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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).