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

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1921 / Served to 1963

Fred H. Blume

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

Fred H. Blume was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1875–1971
Tenure: 1921–1963 · 41 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Blume authored 675 published opinions for the court (1921–1962), plus 7 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Langley (79 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. 134 of these were attributed to Blume 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
1938	State v. Langley	84 P.2d 767	79
1924	State v. Sorrentino†	31 Wyo. 129	79
1935	Willis v. Willis	49 P.2d 670	78
1931	O'Malley v. Eagan	2 P.2d 1063	71
1921	Lemos v. Madden†	28 Wyo. 1	69
1933	Stockwell v. Morris	22 P.2d 189	68
1942	Eagan v. State	128 P.2d 215	64
1937	Urbach v. Urbach	73 P.2d 953	59
1923	Bunten v. Rock Springs Grazing Ass'n†	29 Wyo. 461	59
1958	Appeal of Pine Bluffs v. State Board of Equalization	333 P.2d 700	58
1931	Holly Sugar Corp. v. Fritzler	296 P. 206	57
1929	City of Rock Springs v. Sturm	273 P. 908	57
1927	Loney v. Laramie Auto Co.	255 P. 350	53
1930	Hatten R. Co. v. Baylies Et Ux.	290 P. 561	51
1926	State v. George	231 P. 683	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 695 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 Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Fred H. Blume on?: Fred H. Blume was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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