How do judges of the New Mexico Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

New Mexico Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1950

Charles Rufus Brice

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Charles Rufus Brice was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1870–1963
Tenure: 1935–1950 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brice authored 251 published opinions for the court (1925–1950), plus 23 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Sisneros (83 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. 11 of these were attributed to Brice 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
1938	State v. Sisneros	82 P.2d 274	83
1940	Stambaugh v. Hayes	103 P.2d 640	82
1938	State v. Lord	84 P.2d 80	71
1937	Hester v. Sawyers	71 P.2d 646	65
1943	Webb v. New Mexico Pub. Co.	141 P.2d 333	64
1941	Stevenson v. Lee Moor Contracting Co.· Separate	115 P.2d 342	64
1946	Flaska v. State· Dissent	177 P.2d 174	62
1941	Mosley v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.· Separate	114 P.2d 740	61
1926	State Ex Rel. Burg v. City of Albuquerque	249 P. 242	61
1950	State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Dority	225 P.2d 1007	58
1944	Laughlin v. Laughlin	155 P.2d 1010	56
1945	State Ex Rel. State Game Commission v. Red River Valley Co.· Concurrence	182 P.2d 421	55
1940	Krametbauer v. McDonald	104 P.2d 900	54
1945	State v. Shroyer· Dissent	160 P.2d 444	52
1949	Mitchell v. Allison	213 P.2d 231	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 297 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 New Mexico Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Charles Rufus Brice on?: Charles Rufus Brice was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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