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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1969 / Served to 1976

Randall Evans Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Randall Evans Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1986
Tenure: 1969–1976 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Evans authored 653 published opinions for the court (1969–1976), plus 202 dissents and 149 concurrences. Most cited: Orkin Exterminating Co. v. Stevens (107 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. 581 of these were attributed to Evans 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
1973	Orkin Exterminating Co. v. Stevens· Dissent†	203 S.E.2d 587	107
1974	Gilson v. Mitchell· Concurrence†	205 S.E.2d 421	72
1970	Boatright v. Rich's, Inc.	173 S.E.2d 232	65
1972	Buffalo Cab Co. v. Williams· Concurrence†	191 S.E.2d 317	63
1973	West Georgia Pulpwood & Timber Co. v. Stephens· Concurrence†	198 S.E.2d 420	50
1973	Walsh v. Campbell· Concurrence†	202 S.E.2d 657	48
1970	Home Indemnity Company v. Godley· Dissent†	177 S.E.2d 105	47
1972	Jones v. State· Dissent†	192 S.E.2d 171	45
1973	Hodges v. Youmans	200 S.E.2d 157	44
1973	First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Kunes	197 S.E.2d 446	44
1974	Stewart v. Gainesville Glass Co.· Concurrence†	206 S.E.2d 857	43
1976	LaRue v. State· Concurrence†	224 S.E.2d 837	42
1974	Montgomery v. Pacific & Southern Co.	206 S.E.2d 631	41
1973	Geiger v. State· Dissent†	199 S.E.2d 861	40
1971	Candler General Hospital, Inc. v. Purvis	181 S.E.2d 77	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,004 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 Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Randall Evans Jr. on?: Randall Evans Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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