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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Mississippi / Joined 1940 / Served to 1950

William Greene Roberds

Justice, Supreme Court of Mississippi

William Greene Roberds was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1963
Tenure: 1940–1950 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Supreme Court of Mississippi	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Roberds authored 341 published opinions for the court (1940–1960), plus 38 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Sample v. Romine (77 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. 21 of these were attributed to Roberds 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
1942	Sample v. Romine	8 So. 2d 257	77
1943	Lee v. Memphis Pub. Co.· Dissent	14 So. 2d 351	55
1953	Karr v. Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co.	61 So. 2d 789	42
1945	Cross v. O'Cavanagh	21 So. 2d 473	40
1949	Ivey v. State	40 So. 2d 609	34
1950	Seals v. State	44 So. 2d 61	32
1949	Summerville v. State	41 So. 2d 377	31
1949	Rice v. McMullen· Concurrence	43 So. 2d 195	30
1947	Gulf Refining Co. v. Travis· Dissent	29 So. 2d 100	30
1945	Gresham v. Gresham	21 So. 2d 414	30
1946	Stone v. McKay Plumbing Co.· Separate	26 So. 2d 349	29
1944	Tri-State Transit Co. of Louisiana, Inc. v. Dixie Greyhound Lines, Inc.· Concurrence	19 So. 2d 441	29
1941	State Highway Commission v. Mason	4 So. 2d 345	29
1959	Munn v. NATL. FIRE INS. OF HARTFORD	115 So. 2d 54	28
1955	Wallace v. Copiah County Lumber Co.	77 So. 2d 316	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 408 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 Mississippi reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was William Greene Roberds on?: William Greene Roberds was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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