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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1945 / Served to 1962

Edwin K. Cheadle

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Edwin K. Cheadle was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1895 · age 131
Tenure: 1945–1962 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cheadle authored 45 published opinions for the court (1945–1948), plus 12 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Nance (34 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. 2 of these were attributed to Cheadle 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
1947	State v. Nance	184 P.2d 554	34
1947	Kornec v. Mike Horse Mining & Milling Co.· Dissent	180 P.2d 252	32
1945	Adami v. Murphy	164 P.2d 150	30
1945	City of Billings v. Pierce Packing Co.	161 P.2d 636	28
1947	Broberg v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.· Dissent	182 P.2d 851	27
1946	White v. Kamps	171 P.2d 343	25
1946	Lindsey v. Keenan, Andrews Allred	165 P.2d 804	24
1946	Milasevich v. Fox Western Montana Theatre Corp.	165 P.2d 195	21
1945	Nesbitt v. City of Butte	163 P.2d 251	21
1946	Epletveit v. Solberg· Dissent	169 P.2d 722	20
1946	Stefonick v. Stefonick	167 P.2d 848	20
1945	Coldwater v. State Highway Commission	162 P.2d 772	20
1947	Crenshaw v. Crenshaw· Dissent	182 P.2d 477	19
1945	Green v. City of Roundup	157 P.2d 1010	18
1946	Woodward v. Perkins· Concurrence	171 P.2d 997	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 Montana Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Edwin K. Cheadle on?: Edwin K. Cheadle was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

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17 years on the Montana Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).