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

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

Kansas Supreme Court / Joined 1995 / Served to 2002

Robert Larson

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Robert Larson was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1932–2010
Tenure: 1995–2002 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Larson authored 174 published opinions for the court (1995–2005), plus 5 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Kansas Public Employees Retirement System v. Reimer & Koger Associates, Inc. (133 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. 33 of these were attributed to Larson 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
1997	Kansas Public Employees Retirement System v. Reimer & Koger Associates, Inc.	941 P.2d 1321	133
1998	Marquis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.· Concurrence†	961 P.2d 1213	124
1998	State v. Collier	952 P.2d 1326	104
1997	State v. Rice	932 P.2d 981	99
1998	In Re the Care & Treatment of Hay	953 P.2d 666	98
2000	Babe Houser Motor Co. v. Tetreault	14 P.3d 1149	88
1996	Murphy v. Nelson	921 P.2d 1225	86
2000	Cypress Media, Inc. v. City of Overland Park	997 P.2d 681	75
1998	Schmidt v. HTG, Inc.	961 P.2d 677	71
2000	State v. Wilkinson	9 P.3d 1	69
1999	State v. Lee· Concurrence†	977 P.2d 263	67
2000	Wilkinson v. Shoney's, Inc.	4 P.3d 1149	65
1998	York v. InTrust Bank, N.A.	962 P.2d 405	65
1999	State v. Saleem	977 P.2d 921	62
1997	Gragg v. Wichita State University	934 P.2d 121	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 187 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Robert Larson on?: Robert Larson was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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