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Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1980 / Served to 1984

Richard B. Adkisson

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Richard B. Adkisson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1980–1984 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Adkisson authored 159 published opinions for the court (1981–1984), plus 42 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Hill v. State (122 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. 142 of these were attributed to Adkisson 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
1982	Hill v. State	628 S.W.2d 284	122
1982	City of Little Rock v. Cash· Dissent†	644 S.W.2d 229	115
1983	DuPree v. Alma School District No. 30· Dissent†	651 S.W.2d 90	99
1981	Earl v. State	612 S.W.2d 98	93
1984	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Broadway Arms Corp.· Concurrence†	664 S.W.2d 463	90
1982	Baxter v. State	626 S.W.2d 935	78
1981	Swaite v. State	612 S.W.2d 307	73
1983	Henry v. State· Dissent†	647 S.W.2d 419	55
1984	Boone v. State	668 S.W.2d 17	53
1984	L. L. Cole & Son, Inc. v. Hickman	665 S.W.2d 278	53
1981	Singleton v. State	623 S.W.2d 180	53
1981	Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Department v. Breshears	613 S.W.2d 392	53
1982	Becker v. Riviere	641 S.W.2d 2	50
1984	Orsini v. State	665 S.W.2d 245	44
1983	Bishop v. LINKWAY STORES, INC.	655 S.W.2d 426	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 210 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 Richard B. Adkisson on?: Richard B. Adkisson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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3 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).