How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

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

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1973 / Served to 1979

Tyrie A. Boyer

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Tyrie A. Boyer was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2013
Tenure: 1973–1979 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Boyer authored 431 published opinions for the court (1974–1979), plus 42 dissents and 52 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. Greenberg v. Florida State Board of Dentistry (208 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. 236 of these were attributed to Boyer 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
1974	State ex rel. Greenberg v. Florida State Board of Dentistry†	297 So. 2d 628	208
1979	Agrico Chemical Co. v. STATE, ETC.	365 So. 2d 759	81
1977	Ellis v. State	346 So. 2d 1044	71
1976	Cann v. Cann	334 So. 2d 325	61
1975	Connell v. Sledge	306 So. 2d 194	59
1975	Florida State University v. Jenkins	323 So. 2d 597	57
1977	School Bd. of Leon County v. Mitchell	346 So. 2d 562	54
1975	Davis v. Sails	318 So. 2d 214	43
1976	Unijax, Inc. v. Factory Insurance Association	328 So. 2d 448	41
1974	GARDINIER INC. v. Florida Dept. of Pollution Control	300 So. 2d 75	40
1977	Patterson v. Patterson	348 So. 2d 592	37
1974	Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Com. Sh., Inc. v. State	295 So. 2d 314	35
1974	Markham v. State, Dept. of Revenue	298 So. 2d 210	34
1974	Dawson v. Blue Cross Association	293 So. 2d 90	32
1974	Sheff v. State	301 So. 2d 13	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 525 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 Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Tyrie A. Boyer on?: Tyrie A. Boyer was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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6 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).