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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1954 / Served to 1957

Horace S. Davis

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Horace S. Davis was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1893 · age 133
Tenure: 1954–1957 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 21 published opinions for the court (1955–1957), plus 10 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Gaffney v. Industrial Accident Board of Montana (34 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. 26 of these were attributed to Davis 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
1955	Gaffney v. Industrial Accident Board of Montana· Dissent†	287 P.2d 256	34
1955	Levo v. General-Shea-Morrison· Dissent†	280 P.2d 1086	32
1955	State v. Parr· Dissent†	283 P.2d 1086	28
1955	State v. Hale	291 P.2d 229	25
1955	In Re on Behalf of Enke	287 P.2d 19	22
1955	State v. Kitchens	286 P.2d 1079	21
1955	Rathbun v. Taber Tank Lines, Inc.· Dissent†	283 P.2d 966	20
1956	State v. Nelson· Concurrence†	304 P.2d 1110	16
1955	State ex rel. Adamson v. District Court of the Fourth Judicial District†	128 Mont. 538	16
1957	State v. Blakeslee	306 P.2d 1103	15
1956	State Ex Rel. Ebel v. Schye· Concurrence†	305 P.2d 350	14
1956	Spieth v. Stuart· Concurrence†	299 P.2d 106	14
1956	Victor Chemical Works v. Silver Bow County	301 P.2d 730	13
1956	State ex rel. Morgan v. Industrial Accident Board· Dissent†	130 Mont. 272	12
1955	Richland County v. Anderson	291 P.2d 267	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 Horace S. Davis on?: Horace S. Davis was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).