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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas / Joined 1997 / Served to 2007

Terry Crabtree

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Terry Crabtree was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1951–2007
Tenure: 1997–2007 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Crabtree authored 156 published opinions for the court (1997–2006), plus 29 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Hollinger v. Hollinger (50 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. 108 of these were attributed to Crabtree 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
1999	Hollinger v. Hollinger· Concurrence†	986 S.W.2d 105	50
2005	Taylor v. George	212 S.W.3d 17	37
1998	Jeter v. B.R. McGinty Mechanical· Dissent†	968 S.W.2d 645	33
2003	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Brown· Dissent†	120 S.W.3d 153	28
1997	Turner v. Benson	953 S.W.2d 596	28
1997	Roberson v. Waste Management· Concurrence†	944 S.W.2d 858	28
2005	Lee v. Alcoa Extrusion, Inc.	201 S.W.3d 449	24
2000	Superior Industries v. Thomaston· Dissent†	32 S.W.3d 52	24
2004	Whitlatch v. Southland Land & Development	141 S.W.3d 916	23
1998	Brown v. Alabama Electric Co.· Concurrence†	959 S.W.2d 753	23
2001	Walls v. Director, Employment Security Division	49 S.W.3d 670	22
2005	Dodd v. Sparks Regional Medical Center	204 S.W.3d 579	19
2003	Rossini v. Director, Arkansas Employee Security Department	101 S.W.3d 266	19
2002	Carver v. Allstate Insurance	76 S.W.3d 901	19
2001	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Stotts†	74 Ark. App. 428	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 203 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 Court of Appeals of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Terry Crabtree on?: Terry Crabtree was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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