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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1935 / Served to 1953

Nelson L. Gibson

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Nelson L. Gibson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1881 · age 145
Tenure: 1935–1953 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gibson authored 766 published opinions for the court (1935–1952), plus 81 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Application of Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (86 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. 157 of these were attributed to Gibson 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
1950	Application of Oklahoma Turnpike Authority· Dissent†	221 P.2d 795	86
1944	Payne, County Treas. v. Jones· Dissent	146 P.2d 113	81
1943	Wimberly v. Deacon· Dissent	144 P.2d 447	62
1938	Herrin v. Arnold	82 P.2d 977	59
1945	State Ex Rel. Kerr v. Grand River Dam Authority	154 P.2d 946	54
1940	Lacy v. Wozencraft	105 P.2d 781	52
1939	Associated Industries of Oklahoma v. Industrial Welfare Commission· Dissent	90 P.2d 899	51
1948	Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. v. Board of Ed.†	201 Okla. 250	48
1948	Mid-Continent Pipe Line Co. v. Wilkerson†	200 Okla. 335	46
1952	Jenkins v. Frederick	257 P.2d 1058	45
1937	Consolidated Cut Stone Co. v. Seidenbach· Dissent	75 P.2d 442	44
1943	Board of Review v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.	141 P.2d 69	42
1951	Palmer Oil Corp. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.	231 P.2d 997	41
1936	Baker v. Tulsa Bldg. & Loan Ass'n	66 P.2d 45	41
1947	Griffin v. Dohner· Dissent†	199 Okla. 676	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 866 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 Oklahoma reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Nelson L. Gibson on?: Nelson L. Gibson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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