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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1945 / Served to 1958

Minor W. Millwee

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Minor W. Millwee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1945–1958 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Millwee authored 519 published opinions for the court (1945–1958), plus 11 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Moore v. Hall (444 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. 195 of these were attributed to Millwee 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
1958	Moore v. Hall	316 S.W.2d 207	444
1958	Chism v. Phelps	311 S.W.2d 297	79
1950	Heskett v. Fisher Laundry & Cleaners Co.	230 S.W.2d 28	51
1953	Lively v. Lively	261 S.W.2d 409	48
1956	Bryant Stave & Heading Co. v. White	296 S.W.2d 436	46
1949	Ozan Lumber Company v. McNeely	217 S.W.2d 341	44
1952	Strickler v. State Auto Finance Co.†	249 S.W.2d 307	36
1952	Clinton v. Morrow	247 S.W.2d 1015	34
1957	Kirksey v. City of Ft. Smith	300 S.W.2d 257	30
1955	Jefferson v. Nero	280 S.W.2d 884	30
1950	Alexander v. Alexander	229 S.W.2d 234	30
1954	Home Indemnity Co. v. Snowden†	264 S.W.2d 642	29
1951	Clark v. Holt	237 S.W.2d 483	28
1946	Murch-Jarvis Company, Inc. v. Townsend	193 S.W.2d 310	27
1956	Reynolds Metal Company v. Brumley	290 S.W.2d 211	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 532 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Minor W. Millwee on?: Minor W. Millwee was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

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