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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1956 / Served to 1976

Henry F. McQuade

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Henry F. McQuade was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1956–1976 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McQuade authored 416 published opinions for the court (1950–1989), plus 51 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Thompson v. Hagan (140 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. 133 of these were attributed to McQuade 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
1974	Thompson v. Hagan	523 P.2d 1365	140
1964	Billings v. Sisters of Mercy of Idaho	389 P.2d 224	108
1969	Boise Dodge, Inc. v. Clark	453 P.2d 551	92
1957	Johns v. SH Kress & Company· Dissent†	307 P.2d 217	88
1975	State v. Powers	537 P.2d 1369	80
1975	Thompson v. Engelking	537 P.2d 635	76
1975	Ramsey v. Ramsey· Dissent†	535 P.2d 53	76
1972	Jolley v. Puregro Company· Concurrence†	496 P.2d 939	76
1964	Mahaffey v. State	392 P.2d 279	76
1974	State v. Hobson· Dissent†	523 P.2d 523	74
1970	State v. Dillon	471 P.2d 553	74
1974	Rindlisbaker v. Wilson· Concurrence†	519 P.2d 421	73
1972	State v. Gibbs	500 P.2d 209	71
1972	Cox v. Stolworthy· Concurrence†	496 P.2d 682	69
1974	Simplot v. Simplot	526 P.2d 844	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 488 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 Henry F. McQuade on?: Henry F. McQuade was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).