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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1987

Frank B. Morrison Jr.

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Frank B. Morrison Jr. was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1937–2006
Tenure: 1981–1987 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Morrison authored 322 published opinions for the court (1981–1987), plus 89 dissents and 64 concurrences. Most cited: Cereck v. Albertson's Inc. (129 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. 243 of these were attributed to Morrison 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
1981	Cereck v. Albertson's Inc.· Concurrence†	637 P.2d 509	129
1986	Buckman v. Montana Deaconess Hospital· Concurrence†	730 P.2d 380	117
1984	State v. Anderson· Dissent†	686 P.2d 193	95
1986	Butte Community Union v. Lewis	712 P.2d 1309	91
1985	Aasheim v. Humberger	695 P.2d 824	91
1981	In re M.E.M. Youth in Need of Care†	195 Mont. 329	89
1984	Dare v. Montana Petroleum Marketing Co.· Concurrence†	687 P.2d 1015	84
1983	Klaudt v. Flink· Concurrence†	658 P.2d 1065	84
1984	State v. Liddell· Dissent†	685 P.2d 918	75
1984	Johnson v. Supersave Markets, Inc.	686 P.2d 209	72
1983	Gates v. Life of Montana Insurance	668 P.2d 213	71
1981	Coleman v. State· Dissent†	633 P.2d 624	67
1986	State v. Johnson	719 P.2d 1248	66
1984	State v. Korell· Concurrence†	690 P.2d 992	65
1983	White v. State†	661 P.2d 1272	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 475 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 Frank B. Morrison Jr. on?: Frank B. Morrison Jr. was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).