How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?

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

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 1971 / Served to 1972

Williby E. Case

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Williby E. Case was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–1983
Tenure: 1971–1972 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Stanford University
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Case authored 35 published opinions for the court (1971–1972). Most cited: Abernethy v. Smith (27 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. 35 of these were attributed to Case 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
1972	Abernethy v. Smith†	498 P.2d 175	27
1971	State v. Juengel†	489 P.2d 869	21
1972	Shope v. Industrial Commission†	495 P.2d 148	17
1972	Garner v. Ellingson†	501 P.2d 22	16
1972	Musker v. Gil Haskins Auto Leasing, Inc.†	500 P.2d 635	13
1971	Watzek v. Walker†	485 P.2d 3	13
1971	Lane v. Bisceglia†	488 P.2d 474	11
1972	Davis v. Industrial Commission†	494 P.2d 735	10
1972	Harris v. Murch†	503 P.2d 821	9
1971	State v. Jackson†	485 P.2d 583	9
1972	State v. Serrano†	498 P.2d 547	8
1971	Marquess v. Spaner†	488 P.2d 698	8
1971	Norris v. Superior Court of Mohave County†	481 P.2d 553	8
1972	City of Tucson v. Citizens Utilities Water Company†	498 P.2d 551	7
1971	Bevins v. Dickson Electronics Corporation†	491 P.2d 494	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Williby E. Case on?: Williby E. Case was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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