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

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

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1973 / Served to 1981

Archie G. McClintock

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Archie G. McClintock was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–2004
Tenure: 1973–1981 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McClintock authored 64 published opinions for the court (1973–1984), plus 37 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Martinez v. State (260 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. 123 of these were attributed to McClintock 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
1980	Martinez v. State· Concurrence†	611 P.2d 831	260
1979	Danculovich v. Brown· Concurrence†	593 P.2d 187	117
1979	Duke v. Housen· Dissent†	589 P.2d 334	106
1976	Allen v. Allen· Dissent†	550 P.2d 1137	105
1976	Richmond v. State· Concurrence†	554 P.2d 1217	100
1979	Elliott v. State· Concurrence†	600 P.2d 1044	92
1976	BOARD OF TRUSTEES, LARAMIE CTY SCH. D. NO. 1 v. Spiegel· Concurrence†	549 P.2d 1161	87
1980	Paul v. Paul· Dissent†	616 P.2d 707	81
1977	Jones v. State· Concurrence†	568 P.2d 837	79
1975	Blakely v. State· Dissent†	542 P.2d 857	78
1979	Campbell v. State· Dissent†	589 P.2d 358	75
1981	Board of County Commissioners v. Ridenour· Concurrence†	623 P.2d 1174	73
1978	Basin Electric Power Cooperative v. State Board of Control· Dissent†	578 P.2d 557	73
1977	Rissler & McMurry Co. v. Atlantic Richfield Co.· Dissent†	559 P.2d 25	73
1977	Dodge v. State· Concurrence†	562 P.2d 303	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 126 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 Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Archie G. McClintock on?: Archie G. McClintock was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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