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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1964 / Served to 1980

Stokes Robertson Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

Stokes Robertson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1912 · age 114
Tenure: 1964–1980 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Robertson authored 362 published opinions for the court (1966–1980), plus 7 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Sears, Roebuck & Company v. Tisdale (61 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. 274 of these were attributed to Robertson 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
1966	Sears, Roebuck & Company v. Tisdale	185 So. 2d 916	61
1974	Howell v. State	300 So. 2d 774	59
1968	Stewart v. City of Pascagoula	206 So. 2d 325	57
1968	Ford Motor Company v. Cockrell	211 So. 2d 833	48
1973	Allison v. State	274 So. 2d 678	35
1970	Alack v. Phelps	230 So. 2d 789	35
1967	Saucier v. Walker	203 So. 2d 299	32
1969	In Re Will of Moses· Dissent†	227 So. 2d 829	30
1973	Smith v. Garrett	287 So. 2d 258	24
1970	Lee v. Lee	232 So. 2d 370	24
1974	Taylor v. FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY	306 So. 2d 638	23
1971	State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Allstate Ins. Co.	255 So. 2d 667	22
1971	Myers v. State	254 So. 2d 891	22
1968	Love v. State	208 So. 2d 755	20
1975	William Cooper and Nephews, Inc. v. Pevey†	317 So. 2d 406	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 371 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 Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Stokes Robertson Jr. on?: Stokes Robertson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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