How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

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

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1982 / Served to 1991

Patricia Robinson MacGuigan

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Patricia Robinson MacGuigan was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1991 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, MacGuigan authored 25 published opinions for the court (1988–1991), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Lasiter v. City of Moore (15 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. 13 of these were attributed to MacGuigan 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
1990	Lasiter v. City of Moore	802 P.2d 1292	15
1988	Bostwick v. Atlas Iron Masters, Inc.	780 P.2d 1184	13
1989	Roberts v. Mid-Continent Casualty Co.	790 P.2d 1121	12
1990	Oliver v. Producers Gas Co.	798 P.2d 1090	10
1988	Matter of Conservatorship of Goodman· Dissent†	766 P.2d 1010	7
1990	Cities Service Co. v. Gulf Oil Corp.	797 P.2d 1009	6
1989	Malnar v. Whitfield	774 P.2d 1075	6
1991	Oklahoma State Penitentiary v. Weaver	809 P.2d 1324	4
1989	Mazzio's Corp. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission	789 P.2d 632	4
1989	Carlton Southwest, Inc. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission	781 P.2d 1192	4
1989	Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Guthrie	773 P.2d 769	4
1989	Dry v. Pauls Valley Health Care Facility†	771 P.2d 238	4
1991	Tulsair Beechcraft, Inc. v. Polin†	806 P.2d 1150	3
1990	Crockett v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America†	789 P.2d 1	3
1990	Beasley Oil Co. v. Nance	801 P.2d 745	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Patricia Robinson MacGuigan on?: Patricia Robinson MacGuigan was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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