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 1931 / Served to 1959

Daniel K. Sadler

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Daniel K. Sadler was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1931. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1960
Tenure: 1931–1959 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1931	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sadler authored 374 published opinions for the court (1931–1959), plus 55 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Thompson v. Anderman (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. 75 of these were attributed to Sadler 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
1955	Thompson v. Anderman· Concurrence†	285 P.2d 507	83
1937	State v. Ochoa	72 P.2d 609	81
1948	State v. Prince· Dissent	189 P.2d 993	66
1957	Burch v. Foy· Dissent†	308 P.2d 199	64
1935	State Ex Rel. Capitol Addition Bldg. Commission v. Connelly	46 P.2d 1097	63
1949	State v. McKinley	202 P.2d 964	62
1941	Mosley v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.· Dissent	114 P.2d 740	61
1940	State v. Jones	107 P.2d 324	60
1957	Sellman v. Haddock· Dissent†	310 P.2d 1045	58
1954	State v. White· Dissent†	270 P.2d 727	58
1954	State v. Heisler	272 P.2d 660	56
1957	State Ex Rel. Hovey Concrete Products Co. v. Mechem· Dissent†	316 P.2d 1069	55
1945	State Ex Rel. State Game Commission v. Red River Valley Co.· Dissent	182 P.2d 421	55
1957	Campbell v. Campbell· Dissent†	310 P.2d 266	54
1955	State v. Upton· Concurrence†	290 P.2d 440	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 454 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 Daniel K. Sadler on?: Daniel K. Sadler was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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28 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).