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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1901 / Served to 1907

Charles Stockslager

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Charles Stockslager was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court (5 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1901. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1901–1907 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1901	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stockslager authored 76 published opinions for the court (1901–1907), plus 9 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Adams v. Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co. (81 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. 100 of these were attributed to Stockslager 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
1906	Adams v. Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co.†	12 Idaho 637	81
1906	State v. Bond†	12 Idaho 424	41
1906	Day v. Day· Concurrence†	12 Idaho 556	37
1904	Boise Irrigation & Land Co. v. Stewart· Dissent†	10 Idaho 38	35
1906	Later v. Haywood· Dissent†	12 Idaho 78	34
1903	State v. Shuff†	9 Idaho 115	33
1904	Shields v. Johnson†	10 Idaho 476	27
1905	State v. Wetter†	11 Idaho 433	25
1904	Robertson v. Moore†	10 Idaho 115	24
1907	State v. Barber†	13 Idaho 65	23
1904	State v. Chambers†	9 Idaho 673	22
1902	Sweet v. Ballentyne· Dissent†	8 Idaho 431	22
1904	Small v. Harrington†	10 Idaho 499	20
1904	State v. Rooke†	10 Idaho 388	20
1904	State v. Harness†	10 Idaho 18	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Stockslager on?: Charles Stockslager was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

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5 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).