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 1956 / Served to 1959

W. A. Carlile

Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma

W. A. Carlile was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1961
Tenure: 1956–1959 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Supreme Court of Oklahoma	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carlile authored 58 published opinions for the court (1956–1959), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Hines v. Winters (33 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. 13 of these were attributed to Carlile 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
1957	Hines v. Winters	320 P.2d 1114	33
1958	Gallaspy v. Warner	324 P.2d 848	27
1957	Atlas Life Insurance Company v. Eastman	320 P.2d 397	22
1958	Meyer v. Moore	329 P.2d 676	18
1956	Continental Oil Company v. Elias	307 P.2d 849	16
1959	Magness v. Pledger	334 P.2d 792	14
1957	Burger v. Lickliter	319 P.2d 594	13
1958	Rockett v. Ford	326 P.2d 787	12
1958	Van Horn Drug Company v. Noland	323 P.2d 366	12
1957	Wallace v. Williams	313 P.2d 784	11
1956	Butts v. ROSE DRILLING COMPANY	304 P.2d 986	11
1956	Cloud v. Winn	303 P.2d 305	11
1956	Yellow Transit Freight Lines, Inc. v. Allred	302 P.2d 985	10
1958	Goins v. Fox	332 P.2d 220	9
1957	Wilder v. State	310 P.2d 765	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 59 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 W. A. Carlile on?: W. A. Carlile was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Sources

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3 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).