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Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1972 / Served to 1989

William A. Holohan

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

William A. Holohan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2010
Tenure: 1972–1989 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Holohan authored 457 published opinions for the court (1963–1989), plus 69 dissents and 50 concurrences. Most cited: Wagenseller v. Scottsdale Memorial Hospital (506 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. 187 of these were attributed to Holohan 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
1985	Wagenseller v. Scottsdale Memorial Hospital· Concurrence†	710 P.2d 1025	506
1986	Rawlings v. Apodaca· Dissent†	726 P.2d 565	495
1982	Sparks v. Republic National Life Insurance· Concurrence†	647 P.2d 1127	424
1984	Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance· Dissent†	682 P.2d 388	328
1985	Associated Indemnity Corp. v. Warner	694 P.2d 1181	325
1983	Ontiveros v. Borak· Concurrence†	667 P.2d 200	306
1976	State v. Richmond	560 P.2d 41	250
1985	Markowitz v. Arizona Parks Board· Concurrence†	706 P.2d 364	241
1981	Noble v. National American Life Insurance	624 P.2d 866	232
1984	Kenyon v. Hammer· Concurrence†	688 P.2d 961	223
1983	State v. Jeffers	661 P.2d 1105	217
1985	City of Phoenix v. Geyler· Dissent†	697 P.2d 1073	203
1983	State v. Adamson· Concurrence†	665 P.2d 972	201
1980	State v. Clark	616 P.2d 888	189
1982	State Ex Rel. Collins v. SUPERIOR COURT, ETC.· Concurrence†	644 P.2d 1266	181

Showing the 15 most-cited of 576 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 Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William A. Holohan on?: William A. Holohan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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