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

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

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1984 / Active

W Keith Rapp

Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

W Keith Rapp is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, serving since 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1984 · 42 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rapp authored 156 published opinions for the court (1985–2019), plus 12 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: Atwood v. Atwood (49 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. 132 of these were attributed to Rapp 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
2001	Atwood v. Atwood	2001 OK CIV APP 48	49
2003	In Re Adoption of Baby Girl B.	2003 OK CIV APP 24	27
2001	Fuller v. Pacheco· Dissent†	2001 OK CIV APP 39	19
1998	Murray v. D & J Motor Co., Inc.	1998 OK CIV APP 69	19
2004	Pardee v. Personal Representative for the Estate of Pardee	2005 OK CIV APP 27	18
2005	State v. Frazier†	118 P.3d 224	16
2002	Peters v. American Income Life Insurance Co.	2003 OK CIV APP 62	16
2001	In Re Adoption of SW	2002 OK CIV APP 26	16
2005	Lively v. Ijam, Inc.· Concurrence†	2005 OK CIV APP 29	15
1994	Taylor v. Cache Creek Nursing Centers	891 P.2d 607	15
2017	Strack v. Continental Resources, Inc.· Concurrence†	405 P.3d 131	14
2011	Barton v. City of Midwest City	2011 OK CIV APP 71	14
2006	Bailey v. Farmers Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	137 P.3d 1260	14
2001	Elmore v. Doenges Bros. Ford, Inc.· Dissent†	2001 OK CIV APP 27	14
2001	King v. Modern Music Co.	2001 OK CIV APP 126	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 198 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 Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is W Keith Rapp on?: W Keith Rapp is a Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

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