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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1947

James F. Ailshie

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

James F. Ailshie was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1868–1947
Tenure: 1935–1947 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Carson-Newman University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ailshie authored 218 published opinions for the court (1905–1947), plus 32 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Beaver v. Morrison-Knudsen Co. (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. 10 of these were attributed to Ailshie 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
1934	Beaver v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.· Separate	41 P.2d 605	72
1935	State Ex Rel. Miller v. State Board of Education	52 P.2d 141	71
1943	State v. Gilbert· Concurrence	142 P.2d 584	66
1935	Henderson v. Twin Falls County· Separate	50 P.2d 597	65
1941	Klam v. Koppel· Dissent	118 P.2d 729	46
1940	Lebak v. Nelson· Separate	107 P.2d 1054	42
1946	Clark v. Alloway· Dissent	170 P.2d 425	38
1941	Foster's, Inc. v. Boise City	118 P.2d 721	38
1944	Carrington v. Crandall	147 P.2d 1009	37
1938	Sauvageau v. Sauvageau	81 P.2d 731	37
1936	Call v. City of Burley	62 P.2d 101	37
1942	Hepp v. Ader· Dissent	130 P.2d 859	35
1935	Moody v. State Highway Department· Concurrence	48 P.2d 1108	35
1941	City of Idaho Falls v. Grimmett	117 P.2d 461	33
1942	Batt v. Unemployment Compensation Division of Industrial Accident Board	123 P.2d 1004	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 296 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 James F. Ailshie on?: James F. Ailshie was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).