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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 1975 / Served to 1981

Robert O. Lukowsky

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Robert O. Lukowsky was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 1975. He previously served on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1975–1981 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–
1975	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lukowsky authored 95 published opinions for the court (1975–1981), plus 15 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Deutsch v. Shein (162 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. 64 of these were attributed to Lukowsky 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
1980	Deutsch v. Shein	597 S.W.2d 141	162
1976	Kennedy v. Commonwealth	544 S.W.2d 219	159
1978	Wells v. Commonwealth	561 S.W.2d 85	131
1981	Raine v. Drasin· Dissent†	621 S.W.2d 895	105
1981	Bishop v. Allstate Insurance Co.	623 S.W.2d 865	89
1977	Luttrell v. Commonwealth	554 S.W.2d 75	76
1980	Nichols Ex Rel. Nichols v. Union Underwear Co.· Concurrence†	602 S.W.2d 429	75
1980	Boulder v. Commonwealth	610 S.W.2d 615	69
1978	BOARD OF ADJUST. OF CITY OF RICHMOND v. Flood	581 S.W.2d 1	66
1977	Lewis v. American Family Insurace Group	555 S.W.2d 579	57
1978	Transport Motor Express, Inc. v. Finn· Concurrence†	574 S.W.2d 277	56
1979	Workman v. Commonwealth	580 S.W.2d 206	50
1975	Embs v. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Lexington	528 S.W.2d 703	49
1978	Whorton v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	570 S.W.2d 627	48
1979	Simpson v. Simpson	586 S.W.2d 33	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 116 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Robert O. Lukowsky on?: Robert O. Lukowsky was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Sources

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