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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1970 / Served to 1983

Gene B. Daly

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Gene B. Daly was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1919 · age 107
Tenure: 1970–1983 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Daly authored 453 published opinions for the court (1970–1983), plus 36 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lenihan (189 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. 208 of these were attributed to Daly 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
1979	State v. Lenihan	602 P.2d 997	189
1978	Foy v. Anderson	580 P.2d 114	88
1983	Klaudt v. Flink	658 P.2d 1065	84
1980	Reaves v. Reinbold	615 P.2d 896	75
1976	First Security Bank of Bozeman v. Tholkes	547 P.2d 1328	61
1978	State v. Brackman	582 P.2d 1216	59
1980	Kopischke v. First Continental Corp.	610 P.2d 668	58
1980	Hayes v. Aetna Fire Underwriters	609 P.2d 257	56
1976	Keller v. Smith· Dissent†	553 P.2d 1002	54
1978	Madison v. Yunker	589 P.2d 126	51
1982	Jacobson v. Implement Dealers Mutual Insurance	640 P.2d 908	49
1982	State v. Isom	641 P.2d 417	48
1979	In re Inquiry into J.L.B.†	182 Mont. 100	48
1976	Dunham v. Southside National Bank of Missoula· Concurrence†	548 P.2d 1383	48
1970	Porter v. Porter	473 P.2d 538	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 504 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 Gene B. Daly on?: Gene B. Daly was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).