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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1949 / Served to 1950

Robert A. Leflar

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Robert A. Leflar was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1949–1950 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Leflar authored 65 published opinions for the court (1949–1950), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hill v. Wilson (52 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. 34 of these were attributed to Leflar 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
1949	Hill v. Wilson	224 S.W.2d 797	52
1950	Hawkins v. Missouri Pacific Railroad	228 S.W.2d 642	38
1950	Brothers v. Dierks Lumber & Coal Co.	232 S.W.2d 646	36
1950	Scroggins v. Kerr	228 S.W.2d 995	34
1949	Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Fort Smith v. Hicks	223 S.W.2d 762	29
1950	Gipson v. Morley	233 S.W.2d 79	25
1950	Motors Ins. Corporation v. Lopez	229 S.W.2d 228	25
1950	Dobbins v. Martin Buick Co.	227 S.W.2d 620	23
1950	Derby v. Blankenship	230 S.W.2d 481	22
1949	Meyer v. Seifert	225 S.W.2d 4	21
1950	Massey v. Tyra	234 S.W.2d 759	20
1950	Self v. Taylor· Dissent†	235 S.W.2d 45	20
1949	Williams v. Harris, Mayor	224 S.W.2d 9	20
1950	Fuller v. State	232 S.W.2d 988	19
1950	Roberts v. Roberts· Dissent†	226 S.W.2d 579	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Robert A. Leflar on?: Robert A. Leflar was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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