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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1929 / Served to 1961

Albert H. Angstman

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Albert H. Angstman was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1929. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1964
Tenure: 1929–1961 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1929	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Angstman authored 664 published opinions for the court (1929–1961), plus 253 dissents and 109 concurrences. Most cited: Fulton v. Chouteau County Farmers' Co. (97 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. 241 of these were attributed to Angstman 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
1934	Fulton v. Chouteau County Farmers' Co.· Concurrence	37 P.2d 1025	97
1960	State v. Randall	353 P.2d 1054	80
1932	Ulmen v. Schwieger	12 P.2d 856	76
1948	State Board of Equalization v. Cole· Dissent	195 P.2d 989	60
1931	State Ex Rel. Diederichs v. State Highway Commission· Concurrence	296 P. 1033	58
1959	State v. Greeno· Dissent†	342 P.2d 1052	57
1932	McNair v. Berger	15 P.2d 834	57
1934	Vonault v. O'Rourke· Dissent	33 P.2d 535	55
1949	Lowery v. Garfield County· Dissent	208 P.2d 478	54
1948	Emery v. Emery· Dissent	200 P.2d 251	52
1934	Mills v. State Board of Equalization· Dissent	33 P.2d 563	52
1940	State Ex Rel. Butte Brewing Co. v. District Court	100 P.2d 932	48
1935	State Ex Rel. Nagle v. Sullivan· Dissent	40 P.2d 995	47
1934	Harrington v. H. D. Lee Mercantile Co.· Dissent	33 P.2d 553	47
1946	Batchoff v. Craney	172 P.2d 308	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,037 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 Montana Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Albert H. Angstman on?: Albert H. Angstman was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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