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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 2001 / Former Justice

Daniel T. Eismann

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Daniel T. Eismann was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Idaho

Judicial Record

In our data, Eismann authored 458 published opinions for the court (2001–2017), plus 16 dissents and 64 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Oliver (2,738 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. 262 of these were attributed to Eismann 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
2007	State v. Oliver	170 P.3d 387	2,738
2009	DeRushé v. State	200 P.3d 1148	372
2006	State v. Doe· Concurrence†	144 P.3d 597	358
2007	State v. Doe	172 P.3d 1114	306
2011	Verska v. Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center	265 P.3d 502	251
2008	State v. Payne· Concurrence†	199 P.3d 123	235
2008	Pizzuto v. State	202 P.3d 642	148
2007	Ticor Title Co. v. Stanion· Concurrence†	157 P.3d 613	126
2002	Infanger v. City of Salmon	44 P.3d 1100	106
2003	State v. Jakoski	79 P.3d 711	101
2007	Joyce Livestock Co. v. United States	156 P.3d 502	99
2002	Camp v. East Fork Ditch Co., Ltd.	55 P.3d 304	99
2002	Dulaney v. St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center	45 P.3d 816	90
2010	Weinstein v. Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance	233 P.3d 1221	74
2007	State v. Henage· Concurrence†	152 P.3d 16	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 538 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 Daniel T. Eismann on?: Daniel T. Eismann was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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25 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).