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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia / Joined 1941 / Served to 1957

William T. Lovins

Justice, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

William T. Lovins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1957
Tenure: 1941–1957 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lovins authored 289 published opinions for the court (1941–1957), plus 65 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: Crawford v. Taylor (179 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. 85 of these were attributed to Lovins 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
1953	Crawford v. Taylor· Dissent†	75 S.E.2d 370	179
1941	Miners in General Group v. Hix· Dissent	17 S.E.2d 810	129
1953	Vest v. Cobb· Dissent†	76 S.E.2d 885	119
1946	State v. Hudson· Dissent	37 S.E.2d 553	80
1944	State v. Beacraft· Dissent	30 S.E.2d 541	64
1943	Mainella v. Board of Trustees of Policemen's Pension or Relief Fund	27 S.E.2d 486	63
1950	State v. Painter†	63 S.E.2d 86	57
1945	Hark v. Mountain Fork Lumber Co.	34 S.E.2d 348	56
1946	Divita v. Atlantic Trucking Co.	40 S.E.2d 324	55
1953	State Ex Rel. Medley v. Skeen	76 S.E.2d 146	50
1949	State v. Reppert· Concurrence	52 S.E.2d 820	50
1947	State Ex Rel. Davis Trust Co. v. Sims· Dissent	46 S.E.2d 90	47
1956	Walker v. Robertson	91 S.E.2d 468	46
1953	State Ex Rel. Lovejoy v. Skeen	78 S.E.2d 456	44
1950	Walk v. State Compensation Commissioner· Concurrence†	58 S.E.2d 791	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 384 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 Appeals of West Virginia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was William T. Lovins on?: William T. Lovins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sources

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