How do judges of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina / Joined 1974 / Served to 1982

Robert M. Martin

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Robert M. Martin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1982 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Martin authored 219 published opinions for the court (1974–1977), plus 12 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Norton v. Sawyer (40 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. 147 of these were attributed to Martin 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
1976	Norton v. Sawyer	227 S.E.2d 148	40
1977	Roland v. W & L Motor Lines, Inc.†	231 S.E.2d 685	29
1976	Clyde Rudd & Associates, Inc. v. Taylor	225 S.E.2d 602	28
1977	State v. Wooten†	237 S.E.2d 301	22
1976	Ken-Lu Enterprises, Inc. v. Neal	223 S.E.2d 831	22
1976	Stokley v. Stokley	227 S.E.2d 131	21
1975	State v. Steele	219 S.E.2d 540	20
1976	State v. Freeman	228 S.E.2d 516	19
1975	North Carolina National Bank v. Wallens	217 S.E.2d 12	19
1975	Frink v. North Carolina Board of Transportation	218 S.E.2d 713	18
1975	First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Akelaitis	214 S.E.2d 281	18
1976	Nytco Leasing, Inc. v. Dan-Cleve Corp.	230 S.E.2d 559	17
1976	Walters v. Sanford Herald, Inc.	228 S.E.2d 766	16
1977	State v. Lilly†	232 S.E.2d 495	14
1976	State v. Green	225 S.E.2d 170	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 232 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 Court of Appeals of North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Robert M. Martin on?: Robert M. Martin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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