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

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

Supreme Court of Oklahoma / Joined 1935 / Served to 1959

Thomas S. Corn

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Thomas S. Corn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1967
Tenure: 1935–1959 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Corn authored 867 published opinions for the court (1935–1958), plus 34 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Standard Roofing & Material Co. v. Mosley (80 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. 205 of these were attributed to Corn 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
1936	Standard Roofing & Material Co. v. Mosley	56 P.2d 847	80
1956	Stemmons, Inc. v. Universal CIT Credit Corporation	301 P.2d 212	74
1945	Oklahoma County v. Queen City Lodge No. 197, I. O. O. F.· Dissent	156 P.2d 340	63
1938	Sheldon v. Grand River Dam Authority· Dissent	76 P.2d 355	61
1938	Herrin v. Arnold· Dissent	82 P.2d 977	59
1953	Maben v. Lee	260 P.2d 1064	42
1958	State Ex Rel. Commissioners of the Land Office v. Carter Oil Co.	336 P.2d 1086	35
1942	Delfeld v. City of Tulsa	131 P.2d 754	35
1942	Welborn v. Whitney· Dissent	126 P.2d 263	35
1936	Tulsa Rig, Reel & Mfg. Co. v. Case	55 P.2d 777	35
1958	Cotner v. Warren· Dissent†	330 P.2d 217	34
1945	Casualty Reciprocal Exchange v. Sutfin	166 P.2d 434	34
1944	Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Davidson	148 P.2d 468	34
1958	Page v. Hardy	334 P.2d 782	33
1949	Norman v. Scrivner-Stevens Co.†	201 Okla. 218	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 908 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 Thomas S. Corn on?: Thomas S. Corn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

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24 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).