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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1930 / Served to 1949

Percy R. Kelly

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Percy R. Kelly was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1870–1949
Tenure: 1930–1949 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Judicial Record

In our data, Kelly authored 439 published opinions for the court (1879–1949), plus 26 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Spicer v. Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees (77 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. 4 of these were attributed to Kelly 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
1933	Spicer v. Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees· Dissent	21 P.2d 187	77
1948	McIver v. Norman	213 P.2d 144	72
1930	Judson v. Bee Hive Auto Service Co.· Concurrence†	136 Or. 1	69
1937	State v. Coats· Concurrence	74 P.2d 1102	46
1936	Peck v. Gerber	59 P.2d 675	40
1943	Behnke-Walker Business College v. Multnomah County· Concurrence	146 P.2d 614	39
1942	State v. Wallace· Dissent	131 P.2d 222	36
1940	Singer Sewing MacHine Co. v. State Unemployment Compensation Commission	116 P.2d 744	35
1944	Marshall v. Wilson	154 P.2d 547	34
1941	Lowe v. Harmon	115 P.2d 297	32
1933	Hartley v. Berg	25 P.2d 932	32
1948	Garner v. Garner· Dissent	189 P.2d 397	31
1932	Mollencop v. City of Salem	8 P.2d 783	30
1942	Shives v. Chamberlain	126 P.2d 28	28
1947	Casciato v. Oregon Liquor Control Commission	185 P.2d 246	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 488 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 Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Percy R. Kelly on?: Percy R. Kelly was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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