How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

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

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1957 / Served to 1968

William P. Allen

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

William P. Allen was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1957–1968 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Allen authored 544 published opinions for the court (1957–1968), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Ramel v. Chasebrook Construction Company (82 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. 342 of these were attributed to Allen 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
1961	Ramel v. Chasebrook Construction Company	135 So. 2d 876	82
1964	Johnson v. State	166 So. 2d 798	54
1962	Pauline v. Lee†	147 So. 2d 359	54
1966	McNeely v. State	186 So. 2d 520	50
1963	Columbia by the Sea, Inc. v. Petty	157 So. 2d 190	50
1965	Citizens National Bank of St. Petersburg v. Peters	175 So. 2d 54	45
1958	McNulty v. Cusack	104 So. 2d 785	45
1963	Richards v. Dodge	150 So. 2d 477	43
1966	Nicholson Supply Co. v. First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Hardee County	184 So. 2d 438	42
1963	Peel v. State	150 So. 2d 281	40
1960	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Ranson	121 So. 2d 175	40
1961	Mills v. Redwing Carriers, Inc.	127 So. 2d 453	39
1958	Myers v. Korbly	103 So. 2d 215	33
1959	Sciortino v. State	115 So. 2d 93	32
1959	City of St. Petersburg v. Calbeck	114 So. 2d 316	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 549 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 Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William P. Allen on?: William P. Allen was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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11 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).