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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1946 / Served to 1946

Carl Lindquist

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Carl Lindquist was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1946. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1898 · age 128
Tenure: 1946–1946

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1946	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lindquist authored 4 published opinions for the court (1946), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Stevens (14 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1946	State v. Stevens	172 P.2d 299	14
1946	Miller v. Murphy	175 P.2d 182	11
1946	Hampton v. Commercial Credit Corp.	176 P.2d 270	5
1946	State Ex Rel. Hills v. District Court of Sixteenth Judicial Dist.	169 P.2d 556	3
1946	State Ex Rel. Van Horn v. Lyon· Concurrence	173 P.2d 891	2
1946	Cavitt v. Seirson· Concurrence	175 P.2d 67	1

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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 Carl Lindquist on?: Carl Lindquist was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

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Joined the court in 1946. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).