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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1891 / Served to 1897

John T. Morgan

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

John T. Morgan was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1891. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1891–1897 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1891	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Morgan authored 59 published opinions for the court (1891–1896), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Orr v. State Board of Equalization (38 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. 60 of these were attributed to Morgan 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
1891	Orr v. State Board of Equalization†	3 Idaho 190	38
1892	Kelley v. Leachman†	3 Idaho 392	20
1896	Wilterding v. Green†	4 Idaho 773	19
1895	Curtis v. Richards†	4 Idaho 434	19
1894	Coffin v. Bradbury· Concurrence†	3 Idaho 770	17
1891	McConnell v. Langdon†	3 Idaho 157	17
1896	Levan v. Richards†	4 Idaho 667	16
1892	Latah County v. Peterson†	3 Idaho 398	16
1892	Murphy v. Montandon†	3 Idaho 325	16
1891	Doan v. Board of Commissioners†	3 Idaho 38	16
1892	Miller v. Pine Mining Co.†	3 Idaho 493	14
1891	Hawkins v. Spokane Hydraulic Mining Co.†	3 Idaho 241	14
1891	People ex rel. Lincoln County v. George†	3 Idaho 72	12
1891	Durant v. Comegys†	3 Idaho 67	12
1894	Smith v. Smith†	4 Idaho 1	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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 John T. Morgan on?: John T. Morgan was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).