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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1961 / Served to 1974

John J. McIntyre

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

John J. McIntyre was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1974
Tenure: 1961–1974 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McIntyre authored 271 published opinions for the court (1961–1974), plus 29 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Alcala v. State (80 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. 322 of these were attributed to McIntyre 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
1971	Alcala v. State†	487 P.2d 448	80
1967	Opie v. State†	422 P.2d 84	72
1963	Ford Motor Company v. Arguello†	382 P.2d 886	71
1972	Bentley v. State· Concurrence†	502 P.2d 203	63
1974	Markle v. Williamson†	518 P.2d 621	61
1973	Reeder v. State· Concurrence†	515 P.2d 969	60
1967	Valerio v. State†	429 P.2d 317	59
1967	SCHOOL DISTRICTS NOS. 2, 3, 6, 9, AND 10 v. Cook· Concurrence†	424 P.2d 751	58
1964	Edwards v. Harris†	397 P.2d 87	58
1971	Monahan v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIST. NO. 9, FREMONT COUNTY†	486 P.2d 235	55
1973	Gabrielson v. State†	510 P.2d 534	54
1972	Cosco v. State†	503 P.2d 1403	54
1961	Warren v. Warren†	361 P.2d 525	51
1970	Blakely v. State†	474 P.2d 127	48
1963	Marathon Oil Company v. Welch†	379 P.2d 832	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 322 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 Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was John J. McIntyre on?: John J. McIntyre was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

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