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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1921 / Served to 1925

Charles P. McCarthy

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Charles P. McCarthy was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1925 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McCarthy authored 157 published opinions for the court (1921–1925), plus 4 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Arnold (38 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 McCarthy 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
1924	State v. Arnold	229 P. 748	38
1923	State v. Armstrong†	38 Idaho 493	34
1924	Hay v. Hay	232 P. 895	32
1921	Rural High School District No. 1 v. School District No. 58†	34 Idaho 222	32
1922	State v. Myers· Concurrence†	36 Idaho 396	28
1925	State v. Breyer	232 P. 560	27
1923	Spivey v. District Court of Third Judicial District†	37 Idaho 774	25
1923	Johnston v. A. C. White Lumber Co.†	37 Idaho 617	25
1922	Sullivan v. Burcaw†	35 Idaho 755	25
1924	State v. Bowker· Separate	231 P. 706	24
1923	Deer Creek Highway District v. Doumecq Highway District†	37 Idaho 601	24
1922	Herrick v. Gallet†	35 Idaho 13	24
1921	Fritcher v. Kelley†	34 Idaho 468	23
1924	Mole v. Payne	227 P. 23	22
1924	State v. Malcom	226 P. 1083	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 168 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 Charles P. McCarthy on?: Charles P. McCarthy was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).