How do judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

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

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1909 / Served to 1947

Thomas Henchion Doyle

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Thomas Henchion Doyle was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1909. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1863–1947
Tenure: 1909–1947 · 38 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1909	Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Doyle authored 1,561 published opinions for the court (1909–1946), plus 3 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Keith v. State (73 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. 1,570 of these were attributed to Doyle 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
1925	Keith v. State†	235 P. 631	73
1914	Koontz v. State†	139 P. 842	65
1913	Morris v. State†	131 P. 731	61
1914	Kirk v. State†	145 P. 307	55
1940	Hoppes v. State†	105 P.2d 433	50
1917	Owen v. State†	163 P. 548	48
1921	Goben v. State†	201 P. 812	45
1915	Cheadle v. State†	149 P. 919	44
1925	Ex Parte Grant†	240 P. 759	43
1910	Ex Parte Eldridge†	106 P. 980	43
1926	Underwood v. State†	251 P. 507	42
1913	Hopkins v. State†	130 P. 1101	42
1939	Matthews v. State†	93 P.2d 549	41
1940	Green v. State†	105 P.2d 795	40
1920	Noel v. State†	188 P. 688	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,571 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 Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Thomas Henchion Doyle on?: Thomas Henchion Doyle was a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

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