How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

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

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1970 / Served to 1980

Robert H. Neptune

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

Robert H. Neptune was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1980 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Neptune authored 23 published opinions for the court (1972–1980), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Bohn v. Divine (25 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. 20 of these were attributed to Neptune 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
1975	Bohn v. Divine	544 P.2d 916	25
1976	Meekins v. Department of Institutions, Social & Rehabilitative Services	554 P.2d 872	19
1976	Security Bank & Trust Co. v. Federal National Bank & Trust Co. of Shawnee· Concurrence†	554 P.2d 119	14
1974	Ford Motor Credit Company v. Goings	527 P.2d 603	11
1978	Cox v. American Fidelity Assurance Co.	581 P.2d 1325	9
1979	Phoenix Federal Savings & Loan v. Great Southwest Fire Insurance Co.†	603 P.2d 356	8
1978	Matter of James H.†	593 P.2d 1095	7
1975	Smith v. Munger	532 P.2d 1202	7
1974	Davis v. Pumpco, Inc.	519 P.2d 557	7
1977	Swan Air Conditioning Co. v. Crest Construction Corp.	568 P.2d 1330	6
1978	Matter of Estate of Burns	585 P.2d 1126	5
1978	Grimshaw v. Grimshaw· Dissent†	581 P.2d 1329	5
1977	Burnworth v. Burnworth†	572 P.2d 301	5
1973	Kohler v. Clark†	525 P.2d 1401	5
1975	Brown v. C. H. Guernsey & Co.	533 P.2d 1009	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 31 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 Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Robert H. Neptune on?: Robert H. Neptune was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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