How do judges of the New Mexico Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

New Mexico Supreme Court / Joined 1959 / Served to 1970

Irwin S. Moise

Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court

Irwin S. Moise was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1984
Tenure: 1959–1970 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	New Mexico Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Moise authored 313 published opinions for the court (1937–1970), plus 22 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Cervantes v. Forbis (72 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. 92 of these were attributed to Moise 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
1964	Cervantes v. Forbis	389 P.2d 210	72
1966	State v. Ortega	419 P.2d 219	71
1966	State v. Rowell	419 P.2d 966	69
1962	Bradbury & Stamm Construction Co. v. Bureau of Revenue· Concurrence†	372 P.2d 808	69
1969	State v. Pace	456 P.2d 197	62
1966	State Ex Rel. Anaya v. Scarborough	410 P.2d 732	61
1961	Reynolds v. Ruidoso Racing Association, Inc.	365 P.2d 671	59
1964	Frederick v. Younger Van Lines	393 P.2d 438	57
1966	State v. Chavez· Dissent†	419 P.2d 456	56
1961	Baros v. Kazmierczwk	362 P.2d 798	56
1963	Gregg v. Gardner	388 P.2d 68	55
1969	State v. Clark	455 P.2d 844	54
1967	Modisette v. Foundation Reserve Insurance Co.· Dissent†	427 P.2d 21	54
1968	Neller v. State	445 P.2d 949	53
1960	State v. McFall	354 P.2d 547	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 350 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 New Mexico Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Irwin S. Moise on?: Irwin S. Moise was a Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Sources

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