How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?

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

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 2002 / Served to 2011

Patrick Irvine

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Patrick Irvine was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2011 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Irvine authored 82 published opinions for the court (2002–2011), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Ritchie v. Krasner (173 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. 17 of these were attributed to Irvine 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
2009	Ritchie v. Krasner	211 P.3d 1272	173
2011	Marriage of MacMillan v. Schwartz	250 P.3d 1213	132
2006	State v. Munninger	142 P.3d 701	63
2003	Zimmerman v. Shakman	62 P.3d 976	58
2008	Chalpin v. Snyder	207 P.3d 666	50
2007	Fulton Homes Corp. v. BBP CONCRETE	155 P.3d 1090	42
2007	Felder v. Physiotherapy Associates	158 P.3d 877	39
2008	Antonio P. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	187 P.3d 1115	38
2008	Warne Investments, Ltd. v. Higgins	195 P.3d 645	32
2008	Mathews v. Life Care Centers of America, Inc.	177 P.3d 867	32
2004	State v. Speers	98 P.3d 560	30
2007	State v. Ross	151 P.3d 1261	28
2007	Arizona Department of Revenue v. Ormond Builders, Inc.	166 P.3d 934	27
2005	State v. Ward	118 P.3d 1122	27
2006	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Connolly	132 P.3d 1197	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 86 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 Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Patrick Irvine on?: Patrick Irvine was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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