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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1907 / Served to 1914

Goerge H. Stewart

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Goerge H. Stewart was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1907. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1907–1914 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1907	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stewart authored 192 published opinions for the court (1907–1914), plus 12 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Feil v. City of Coeur D'Alene (69 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. 219 of these were attributed to Stewart 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
1912	Feil v. City of Coeur D'Alene· Dissent†	23 Idaho 32	69
1909	Wheeler v. Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.†	16 Idaho 375	55
1911	Unfried v. Libert†	20 Idaho 708	42
1908	Richardson v. Ruddy†	15 Idaho 488	42
1909	In re Mallon†	16 Idaho 737	37
1909	Oregon Short Line Railroad v. Pioneer Irrigation District†	16 Idaho 578	35
1910	State v. Fleming†	17 Idaho 471	34
1910	Meholin v. Carlson· Concurrence†	17 Idaho 742	32
1910	Gillesby v. Board of County Commissioners†	17 Idaho 586	32
1911	In re Dawson†	20 Idaho 178	27
1908	Bowers v. Cottrell†	15 Idaho 221	27
1913	Colburn v. Wilson†	24 Idaho 94	26
1911	Knauf v. Dover Lumber Co.†	20 Idaho 773	26
1908	Pittock v. Buck†	15 Idaho 47	25
1912	Hill v. Twin Falls Salmon River Land & Water Co.†	22 Idaho 274	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 222 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 Idaho Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Goerge H. Stewart on?: Goerge H. Stewart was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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