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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1990

Robert Edward Jones

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

Robert Edward Jones was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1983–1990 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Lewis & Clark College

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 73 published opinions for the court (1983–1990), plus 9 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hitz (253 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. 97 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1988	State v. Hitz· Concurrence†	766 P.2d 373	253
1987	State v. Tanner· Dissent†	745 P.2d 757	194
1990	State v. Moen†	786 P.2d 111	189
1986	State v. Brown†	721 P.2d 1357	168
1984	Holien v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.†	689 P.2d 1292	154
1983	State v. Lowry· Concurrence†	667 P.2d 996	133
1987	State v. Henry†	732 P.2d 9	127
1985	State v. Campbell†	705 P.2d 694	124
1984	Delaney v. Taco Time International, Inc.†	681 P.2d 114	122
1987	Nelson v. Lane County· Concurrence†	743 P.2d 692	119
1986	Patton v. J. C. Penney Co.†	719 P.2d 854	117
1988	Chesterman v. Barmon· Concurrence†	753 P.2d 404	112
1983	Nearing v. Weaver· Concurrence†	670 P.2d 137	98
1986	State v. Kock†	725 P.2d 1285	91
1988	Bellikka v. Green†	762 P.2d 997	89

Showing the 15 most-cited of 97 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 Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Robert Edward Jones on?: Robert Edward Jones was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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