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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1968

C. J. Taylor

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

C. J. Taylor was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1949–1968 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 386 published opinions for the court (1948–1968), plus 27 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Owen (116 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. 104 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1953	State v. Owen	253 P.2d 203	116
1952	State v. Evans	245 P.2d 788	105
1966	Bethlahmy v. Bechtel	415 P.2d 698	98
1951	Anderson v. Whipple	227 P.2d 351	98
1954	Graves v. Cupic	272 P.2d 1020	95
1958	State v. Bock	328 P.2d 1065	88
1956	State v. Moore	304 P.2d 1101	81
1961	Peterson v. Idaho First National Bank	367 P.2d 284	75
1950	Koch v. Elkins	225 P.2d 457	68
1950	Hooton v. City of Burley· Concurrence†	219 P.2d 651	64
1963	State v. Hall	383 P.2d 602	62
1968	State v. Gonzales	438 P.2d 897	61
1968	State v. Oyler· Concurrence†	436 P.2d 709	60
1950	Checketts v. Bowman	220 P.2d 682	60
1950	Rowe v. City of Pocatello	218 P.2d 695	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 440 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 C. J. Taylor on?: C. J. Taylor was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 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).