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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1951 / Served to 1965

Sam Robinson

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Sam Robinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1951–1965 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Robinson authored 545 published opinions for the court (1951–1965), plus 65 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Mo. Pac. Trans. Co. v. Miller (68 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. 484 of these were attributed to Robinson 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
1957	Mo. Pac. Trans. Co. v. Miller	299 S.W.2d 41	68
1962	Cash v. Cash	353 S.W.2d 348	62
1957	Sloan v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.	308 S.W.2d 802	58
1953	Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Byars	256 S.W.2d 738	50
1965	Miller v. State	394 S.W.2d 601	44
1960	Dunaway v. Troutt	339 S.W.2d 613	40
1965	Cook Grains v. Fallis	395 S.W.2d 555	39
1960	Froman v. State	339 S.W.2d 601	39
1955	Terry Dairy Products Company v. Cash· Dissent†	275 S.W.2d 12	37
1964	Cude v. State	377 S.W.2d 816	36
1959	Ratton v. Busby· Dissent†	326 S.W.2d 889	36
1953	Shellnut v. Arkansas State Game & Fish Commission· Dissent†	258 S.W.2d 570	36
1955	Orr v. Love	283 S.W.2d 667	33
1959	Nail v. State· Dissent†	328 S.W.2d 836	32
1955	Pellegrini v. Wolfe· Dissent†	283 S.W.2d 162	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 620 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Sam Robinson on?: Sam Robinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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