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Oregon Supreme Court / Joined 1956 / Served to 1976

William M. McAllister

Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

William M. McAllister was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1986
Tenure: 1956–1976 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Oregon Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McAllister authored 407 published opinions for the court (1956–1977), plus 53 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Berry v. Branner (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. 400 of these were attributed to McAllister 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
1966	Berry v. Branner· Dissent†	421 P.2d 996	208
1972	State v. Brown	497 P.2d 1191	201
1969	State v. Cloman· Concurrence†	456 P.2d 67	145
1971	Wiener v. Gamma Phi Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity· Concurrence†	485 P.2d 18	109
1972	Fulton Insurance Co. v. White Motor Corp.†	493 P.2d 138	108
1971	May v. Chicago Insurance Company	490 P.2d 150	99
1964	State v. Brewton†	395 P.2d 874	91
1958	Hillman v. Northern Wasco County PUD†	323 P.2d 664	90
1970	Bahler v. Fletcher· Dissent†	474 P.2d 329	89
1971	Rockhill v. Pollard	485 P.2d 28	88
1959	MARTIN ET UX v. Reynolds Metals Co.· Concurrence†	342 P.2d 790	85
1973	State v. Fitzgerald	516 P.2d 1280	84
1972	Carter v. Moberly	501 P.2d 1276	80
1971	State v. Douglas· Dissent†	488 P.2d 1366	79
1965	Mezyk v. National Repossessions, Inc.· Concurrence†	405 P.2d 840	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 493 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 Oregon Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was William M. McAllister on?: William M. McAllister was a Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.

Sources

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