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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1943 / Served to 1949

R W. Robins

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

R W. Robins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1943–1949 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Robins authored 295 published opinions for the court (1943–1949), plus 43 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Lanier v. Trammell (64 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. 5 of these were attributed to Robins 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
1944	Lanier v. Trammell	180 S.W.2d 818	64
1943	Hunter v. Summerville	169 S.W.2d 579	62
1948	Miller v. Blanton	210 S.W.2d 293	49
1943	Herron Lumber Company v. Neal	172 S.W.2d 252	42
1949	Longstreth v. Cook, Secretary Ark Racing Commission· Dissent	220 S.W.2d 433	39
1943	Williams Manufacturing Co. v. Walker	175 S.W.2d 380	37
1947	Batesville White Lime Company v. Bell	205 S.W.2d 31	36
1944	State v. Browning· Dissent	178 S.W.2d 77	36
1943	Birchett v. Tuf-Nut Garment Manufacturing Company· Dissent	169 S.W.2d 574	35
1946	Carter Oil Company v. Weil· Dissent	192 S.W.2d 215	33
1944	Young v. Young· Dissent	178 S.W.2d 994	33
1946	Byler v. State· Dissent	197 S.W.2d 748	32
1943	McCain, Comm. of Labor v. Crossett Lumber Company· Dissent	174 S.W.2d 114	32
1943	Hart v. Sternberg	171 S.W.2d 475	31
1948	Carson v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., Thompson	209 S.W.2d 97	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 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 R W. Robins on?: R W. Robins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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6 years 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).