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 1983 / Served to 1994

G Joseph Cardine

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

G Joseph Cardine was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–1997
Tenure: 1983–1994 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cardine authored 410 published opinions for the court (1983–1994), plus 105 dissents and 72 concurrences. Most cited: Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission (256 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. 537 of these were attributed to Cardine 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
1993	Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission· Concurrence†	845 P.2d 1040	256
1986	Gates v. Richardson†	719 P.2d 193	149
1994	Wilson v. State· Dissent†	874 P.2d 215	132
1986	Leithead v. American Colloid Co.†	721 P.2d 1059	131
1986	Schmunk v. State†	714 P.2d 724	111
1984	Jahnke v. State· Dissent†	682 P.2d 991	105
1986	DeWald v. State†	719 P.2d 643	103
1993	Hopper v. All Pet Animal Clinic, Inc.· Dissent†	861 P.2d 531	95
1993	State v. Keffer· Concurrence†	860 P.2d 1118	93
1984	Anderson v. Bauer†	681 P.2d 1316	92
1987	Mostert v. CBL & Associates· Concurrence†	741 P.2d 1090	90
1984	Jahnke v. State· Dissent†	692 P.2d 911	90
1988	Griego v. State†	761 P.2d 973	89
1984	Bishop v. State· Dissent†	687 P.2d 242	86
1987	Brown v. State· Concurrence†	736 P.2d 1110	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 587 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 G Joseph Cardine on?: G Joseph Cardine was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).