How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

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

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1972 / Served to 1980

Robert M. Haverfield

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Robert M. Haverfield was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1980
Tenure: 1972–1980 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Miami
University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Haverfield authored 62 published opinions for the court (1972–1980), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Husted v. State (31 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. 51 of these were attributed to Haverfield 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
1979	Husted v. State	370 So. 2d 853	31
1972	Genter v. Genter†	270 So. 2d 388	31
1977	Moviematic Industries Corp. v. Board of County Commissioners†	349 So. 2d 667	28
1979	Gaidymowicz v. WINN-DIXIE STORES, INC	371 So. 2d 212	27
1979	Mercy Hospital, Inc. v. Menendez	371 So. 2d 1077	23
1979	State v. Williams	371 So. 2d 1074	19
1979	Scavella v. Fernandez	371 So. 2d 535	16
1979	Fulka v. Florida Commercial Banks, Inc.	371 So. 2d 521	16
1977	E. V. R. v. State†	342 So. 2d 93	15
1979	State v. Riocabo	372 So. 2d 126	14
1979	Tepper v. Chase Manhattan Bank, NA	376 So. 2d 35	11
1979	Burgos v. Independent Fire Ins. Co.	371 So. 2d 539	10
1979	Barnason v. State	371 So. 2d 680	10
1978	Hicks v. State	362 So. 2d 730	9
1980	Fredericks v. Blake	382 So. 2d 368	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Robert M. Haverfield on?: Robert M. Haverfield was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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8 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).