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

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Kansas Court of Appeals / Joined 1986 / Served to 1993

Robert E. Davis

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Robert E. Davis was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1939–2010
Tenure: 1986–1993 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Creighton University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 111 published opinions for the court (1986–2000), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of H.D. (41 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. 62 of these were attributed to Davis 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
1986	In the Interest of H.D.†	11 Kan. App. 2d 531	41
1990	Shepherd v. Davies	789 P.2d 1190	30
1987	Haag v. Dry Basement, Inc.	732 P.2d 392	30
1990	Penalosa Cooperative Exchange v. Farmland Mutual Insurance†	789 P.2d 1196	29
1988	Citizens State Bank of Grainfield v. Kaiser	750 P.2d 422	28
1989	Adams v. John Deere Co.	774 P.2d 355	25
1990	Farmers Insurance v. Gilbert†	791 P.2d 742	21
1989	State v. Lieurance	782 P.2d 1246	21
1987	In Re the Marriage of Wessling†	747 P.2d 187	20
1999	State v. Rodriguez-Garcia	8 P.3d 3	19
1988	Warwick v. Gluck†	751 P.2d 1042	19
1991	Mid American Credit Union v. Board of County Commissioners	806 P.2d 479	17
1989	Miller v. Alexander	775 P.2d 198	17
1991	State v. Pichon	811 P.2d 517	16
1987	Topeka Datsun Motor Co. v. Stratton	736 P.2d 82	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 Kansas Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Robert E. Davis on?: Robert E. Davis was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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