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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1925 / Served to 1929

Herman H. Taylor

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Herman H. Taylor was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1925–1929 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 100 published opinions for the court (1925–1929), plus 19 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Arregui (76 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. 3 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1927	State v. Arregui	254 P. 788	76
1926	Smallwood v. Jeter	244 P. 149	73
1926	State v. Martinez	250 P. 239	52
1928	In Re Edwards· Dissent	266 P. 665	50
1928	Sprouse v. Mages	269 P. 993	43
1926	Flynn v. Carson	243 P. 818	41
1926	MacLeod v. Stelle	249 P. 254	39
1928	State v. Alvord	272 P. 1010	34
1925	Brady v. Place	242 P. 314	34
1928	Steinour v. Oakley State Bank· Concurrence	262 P. 1052	31
1928	Boise-Payette Lumber Co. v. Challis Independent School District No. 1	268 P. 26	27
1928	Scrivner v. Boise Payette Lumber Co.	268 P. 19	25
1927	Sanderson v. Salmon River Canal Co., Ltd.· Concurrence	263 P. 32	25
1928	In Re Dampier· Concurrence	267 P. 452	24
1927	State v. Hines	254 P. 217	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 Herman H. Taylor on?: Herman H. Taylor was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).