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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1978 / Served to 2010

Rudolph Hargrave

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Rudolph Hargrave was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1923–2014
Tenure: 1978–2010 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hargrave authored 323 published opinions for the court (1978–2010), plus 17 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. (149 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. 128 of these were attributed to Hargrave 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
1982	Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co.	653 P.2d 907	149
1995	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Holden· Dissent†	895 P.2d 707	142
1984	State Ex Rel. York v. Turpen	681 P.2d 763	128
1991	In Re Initiative Petition No. 347 State Question No. 639	813 P.2d 1019	111
1980	City of Sand Springs v. Department of Public Welfare	608 P.2d 1139	106
2001	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Giger· Concurrence†	2001 OK 96	102
2000	Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. v. H. Webb Enterprises, Inc.	2000 OK 78	100
1983	Cowart v. Piper Aircraft Corp.	665 P.2d 315	98
1998	In Re the Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority· Concurrence†	1998 OK 25	91
1985	Middlebrook v. Imler, Tenny & Kugler, M.D.'s, Inc.	713 P.2d 572	91
1984	Daugherty v. Farmers Cooperative Ass'n	689 P.2d 947	90
2007	STATE EX REL. OKLAHOMA BAR ASS'N v. McBride	2007 OK 91	77
1990	State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Downing· Concurrence†	804 P.2d 1120	71
1980	In Re Initiative Petition No. 314· Dissent†	625 P.2d 595	71
2006	YDF, INC. v. Schlumar, Inc.	2006 OK 32	70

Showing the 15 most-cited of 351 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 Supreme Court of Oklahoma reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Rudolph Hargrave on?: Rudolph Hargrave was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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