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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1969 / Served to 1992

Robert J. Danhof

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Robert J. Danhof was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1992 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Danhof authored 565 published opinions for the court (1969–1992), plus 63 dissents and 35 concurrences. Most cited: Sventko v. Kroger Co. (184 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. 482 of these were attributed to Danhof 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
1976	Sventko v. Kroger Co.· Dissent†	245 N.W.2d 151	184
1973	People v. Cowell†	205 N.W.2d 600	72
1980	Cotton v. Kambly	300 N.W.2d 627	67
1977	Civil Rights Commission v. Chrysler Corp.	263 N.W.2d 376	61
1982	People v. Prast	319 N.W.2d 627	54
1988	Meiers-Post v. Schafer	427 N.W.2d 606	53
1978	NORTHERN PLBG. & HEATING, INC. v. Henderson Bros., Inc.	268 N.W.2d 296	52
1975	People v. Peterson· Concurrence†	233 N.W.2d 250	52
1992	People v. Sharp†	481 N.W.2d 773	47
1977	People v. Jones†	254 N.W.2d 863	46
1979	People v. Garth†	287 N.W.2d 216	43
1970	People v. Jaworski†	181 N.W.2d 811	43
1985	Darnell v. Auto-Owners Insurance†	369 N.W.2d 243	39
1981	People v. Delongchamps†	302 N.W.2d 626	39
1987	Crawford County v. Secretary of State	408 N.W.2d 112	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 664 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 Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Robert J. Danhof on?: Robert J. Danhof was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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