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

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

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1975 / Served to 1985

Robert R. Rose Jr.

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Robert R. Rose Jr. was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1997
Tenure: 1975–1985 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rose authored 302 published opinions for the court (1975–1985), plus 69 dissents and 63 concurrences. Most cited: Hopkinson v. State (259 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. 397 of these were attributed to Rose 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
1981	Hopkinson v. State	632 P.2d 79	259
1984	LP v. Natrona County Department of Public Assistance & Social Services†	679 P.2d 976	126
1979	Danculovich v. Brown· Concurrence†	593 P.2d 187	117
1984	Jahnke v. State· Dissent†	682 P.2d 991	105
1976	Allen v. Allen· Dissent†	550 P.2d 1137	105
1983	Hopkinson v. State· Dissent†	664 P.2d 43	104
1978	Jones v. State†	580 P.2d 1150	104
1981	Barnette v. Doyle	622 P.2d 1349	103
1980	Grabill v. State· Dissent†	621 P.2d 802	102
1976	Richmond v. State· Concurrence†	554 P.2d 1217	100
1981	Parkhurst v. State	628 P.2d 1369	98
1982	Thomson v. Wyoming In-Stream Flow Committee· Dissent†	651 P.2d 778	96
1985	Mobil Coal Producing, Inc. v. Parks· Concurrence†	704 P.2d 702	93
1981	Scheikofsky v. State· Concurrence†	636 P.2d 1107	93
1980	DS v. Department of Public Assistance & Social Services†	607 P.2d 911	92

Showing the 15 most-cited of 434 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 Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Robert R. Rose Jr. on?: Robert R. Rose Jr. was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

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