How do judges of the Idaho Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1914 / Served to 1949

Alfred Budge

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Alfred Budge was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1914. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1868–1951
Tenure: 1914–1949 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1914	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Budge authored 790 published opinions for the court (1914–1948), plus 122 dissents and 68 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. Faris-Kesl Construction Co. (74 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. 369 of these were attributed to Budge 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
1915	Smith v. Faris-Kesl Construction Co.· Separate†	27 Idaho 407	74
1946	Smith v. University of Idaho	170 P.2d 404	73
1934	Beaver v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.	41 P.2d 605	72
1935	Henderson v. Twin Falls County· Dissent	50 P.2d 597	65
1940	Pinson Ex Rel. Pinson v. Minidoka Highway District	106 P.2d 1020	63
1937	State v. McMahan· Dissent	65 P.2d 156	61
1929	In Re Larson	279 P. 1087	61
1927	Walker v. Hyde	253 P. 1104	61
1916	State v. Fong Loon†	29 Idaho 248	61
1936	Johnson v. Diefendorf· Concurrence	57 P.2d 1068	55
1924	State v. Hoagland	228 P. 314	52
1932	State v. Wilson	9 P.2d 497	51
1917	Boise Development Co. v. Boise City†	30 Idaho 675	51
1947	Smith v. Smith	180 P.2d 853	50
1937	Geist v. Moore· Dissent	70 P.2d 403	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 992 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 Idaho Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Alfred Budge on?: Alfred Budge was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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