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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1959 / Served to 1965

E. T. Knudson

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

E. T. Knudson was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1959–1965 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Knudson authored 135 published opinions for the court (1959–1966), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Clokey (69 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. 28 of these were attributed to Knudson 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
1961	State v. Clokey	364 P.2d 159	69
1962	Angleton v. Angleton	370 P.2d 788	68
1963	Boesiger v. Freer	381 P.2d 802	58
1964	Franklin v. State· Concurrence†	392 P.2d 552	55
1965	State v. Clark	399 P.2d 955	50
1963	Bale v. Perryman	380 P.2d 501	48
1961	Smith v. Big Lost River Irrigation District	364 P.2d 146	48
1961	Sinnett v. Werelus	365 P.2d 952	47
1965	Arnold v. Splendid Bakery	401 P.2d 271	45
1959	State Ex Rel. Rich v. Idaho Power Co.· Dissent†	346 P.2d 596	45
1963	Sampson v. Layton	387 P.2d 883	42
1963	State v. Bassett	385 P.2d 246	42
1964	State v. Gish	393 P.2d 342	40
1965	Nagel v. Hammond	408 P.2d 468	38
1965	Olsen v. Hawkins	408 P.2d 462	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 E. T. Knudson on?: E. T. Knudson was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).