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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1965 / Served to 1966

Osro Cobb

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Osro Cobb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1996
Tenure: 1965–1966 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Henderson State University
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Cobb authored 47 published opinions for the court (1963–1966), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Walker v. State (37 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. 35 of these were attributed to Cobb 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
1966	Walker v. State	408 S.W.2d 905	37
1963	Maxwell v. State	370 S.W.2d 113	34
1966	Cochran v. Black	400 S.W.2d 280	18
1966	Lewelling v. Mansfield School Dist. No. 76†	240 Ark. 237	15
1966	Ashworth v. Hankins	408 S.W.2d 871	14
1966	Union Bankers Ins. Co. v. National Bank of Commerce	408 S.W.2d 898	14
1966	Gross v. State	403 S.W.2d 75	13
1966	Johnston v. Johnston	408 S.W.2d 885	12
1966	Fancher v. Baker· Dissent†	399 S.W.2d 280	11
1965	Burrow Construction Co. v. Langley	386 S.W.2d 484	11
1966	Old American Life Ins. Co. v. McKenzie	403 S.W.2d 94	9
1966	Wheaton Van Lines, Inc. v. Williams	399 S.W.2d 258	9
1966	Ark. State Hwy. Comm. v. Drennen†	241 Ark. 94	8
1966	Routen v. Van Duyse†	240 Ark. 825	7
1966	Ahne v. Reinhart and Donovan Company	401 S.W.2d 565	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 Osro Cobb on?: Osro Cobb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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1 year 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).