How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1961 / Served to 1962

Neil Bohlinger

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Neil Bohlinger was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1961–1962

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bohlinger authored 58 published opinions for the court (1961–1962), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Safferstone v. Tucker (73 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. 39 of these were attributed to Bohlinger 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
1962	Safferstone v. Tucker	357 S.W.2d 3	73
1962	Donaldson v. Johnson	359 S.W.2d 810	27
1961	Ben M. Hogan & Co. v. Krug	351 S.W.2d 451	22
1961	Bieker v. Owens	350 S.W.2d 522	20
1961	Laman v. Harrill	349 S.W.2d 814	19
1962	Townsend v. Standard Industries, Inc.	363 S.W.2d 535	18
1961	Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Crafton	350 S.W.2d 506	18
1962	Henshaw v. Henderson	359 S.W.2d 436	17
1961	American Casualty Co. v. Hambleton	349 S.W.2d 664	17
1962	Charles v. Lincoln Construction Co.†	235 Ark. 470	15
1962	Carney v. Barnes	363 S.W.2d 417	14
1961	Dukes v. Dukes	349 S.W.2d 339	14
1962	Garver v. Utyesonich	356 S.W.2d 744	12
1962	Smith v. Van Dusen	357 S.W.2d 22	11
1962	Richard v. Smith	361 S.W.2d 741	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 59 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 Neil Bohlinger on?: Neil Bohlinger was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1961. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).