How do judges of the Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Kansas Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1971

Robert T. Price

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Robert T. Price was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1903 · age 123
Tenure: 1948–1971 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Price authored 609 published opinions for the court (1949–1971), plus 38 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Carroll v. Kittle (127 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. 226 of these were attributed to Price 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
1969	Carroll v. Kittle· Dissent†	457 P.2d 21	127
1962	Hale v. Manion	368 P.2d 1	79
1958	Domann v. Pence	325 P.2d 321	71
1958	Kendrick v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad· Dissent†	320 P.2d 1061	59
1969	Bott v. Wendler· Dissent†	453 P.2d 100	54
1961	Voss Ex Rel. Voss v. Bridwell· Dissent†	364 P.2d 955	54
1961	Lee v. State	358 P.2d 765	48
1956	STATE, EX REL. v. Urban Renewal Agency of Kansas City	296 P.2d 656	47
1957	Murray v. Modoc State Bank· Dissent†	313 P.2d 304	46
1961	Henderson v. Kansas Power & Light Co.	362 P.2d 60	43
1949	Berry v. Estate of Berry†	168 Kan. 253	43
1970	Anderson v. Armour & Company	473 P.2d 84	42
1956	Miller v. Farmers Mutual Automobile Insurance	292 P.2d 711	42
1964	State v. Daegele	393 P.2d 978	40
1957	Rule v. Cheeseman· Dissent†	317 P.2d 472	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 650 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 Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Robert T. Price on?: Robert T. Price was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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