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 1971 / Served to 2000

Robert Howard Staton

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Robert Howard Staton was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1925 · age 101
Tenure: 1971–2000 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Staton authored 1,577 published opinions for the court (1971–2000), plus 205 dissents and 130 concurrences. Most cited: Roddy v. State (112 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. 702 of these were attributed to Staton 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
1979	Roddy v. State	394 N.E.2d 1098	112
1976	City of Evansville v. Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Co.	339 N.E.2d 562	108
1982	Indiana Industries, Inc. v. Wedge Products, Inc.	430 N.E.2d 419	100
1975	Home Insurance Company v. Neilsen· Dissent†	332 N.E.2d 240	100
1974	Aafco Heating & Air Conditioning Co. v. Northwest Publications, Inc.	321 N.E.2d 580	99
1996	Konkle v. Henson	672 N.E.2d 450	91
1982	Jones v. City of Logansport	436 N.E.2d 1138	88
1976	L. S. Ayres & Co. Et Al. v. IPALCO Et Al.	351 N.E.2d 814	85
1994	Reed v. Luzny	627 N.E.2d 1362	81
1977	In Re the Marrage of Miles· Dissent†	362 N.E.2d 171	74
1977	Geberin v. Geberin	360 N.E.2d 41	72
1976	Petroski v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co.	354 N.E.2d 736	71
1998	Hubbard v. Hubbard· Concurrence†	690 N.E.2d 1219	70
1997	Parker v. State	676 N.E.2d 1083	70
1977	Middelkamp v. Hanewich	364 N.E.2d 1024	70

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,913 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 Howard Staton on?: Robert Howard Staton was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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29 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).