How do judges of the Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?

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

Indiana Court of Appeals / Joined 1970 / Served to 1979

Robert B. Lybrook

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Robert B. Lybrook was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1979 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lybrook authored 342 published opinions for the court (1972–1979), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Wilcox v. Wilcox (78 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. 72 of these were attributed to Lybrook 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
1977	Wilcox v. Wilcox	365 N.E.2d 792	78
1977	State Farm v. Shuman, Admx.	370 N.E.2d 941	77
1975	Rieth-Riley Construction Company, Inc. v. McCarrell	325 N.E.2d 844	66
1973	Richmond Gas Corporation v. Reeves	302 N.E.2d 795	62
1979	State v. Thompson	385 N.E.2d 198	61
1974	Link v. Sun Oil Company	312 N.E.2d 126	59
1978	Meadowlark Farms, Inc. v. Warken	376 N.E.2d 122	58
1977	Hunter v. State	360 N.E.2d 588	54
1979	Shahan v. Brinegar	390 N.E.2d 1036	52
1975	Kiyose v. Trustees of Indiana University	333 N.E.2d 886	50
1978	United Farm Bureau Family Life Insurance v. Fultz	375 N.E.2d 601	47
1978	Savage v. Savage	374 N.E.2d 536	47
1975	Nissen Trampoline Co. v. Terre Haute First Nat. Bk.	332 N.E.2d 820	46
1976	Vernon Fire & Casualty Insurance v. Matney Ex Rel. Matney	351 N.E.2d 60	44
1975	Myers v. Maris	326 N.E.2d 577	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 349 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 Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Robert B. Lybrook on?: Robert B. Lybrook was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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