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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1917 / Served to 1923

John C. Rice

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

John C. Rice was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court (5 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1917. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1917–1923 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1917	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rice authored 160 published opinions for the court (1917–1934), plus 9 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Maguire (46 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. 185 of these were attributed to Rice 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
1917	State v. Maguire†	31 Idaho 24	46
1921	Miller v. Prout†	33 Idaho 709	39
1917	School District No. 8 v. Twin Falls County Mutual Fire Insurance†	30 Idaho 400	37
1918	Reno v. Richards†	32 Idaho 1	33
1922	State v. Dong Sing· Dissent†	35 Idaho 616	32
1918	Sandpoint Water & Light Co. v. City of Sandpoint†	31 Idaho 498	32
1917	Burt v. Farmers' Co-Operative Irrigation Co.†	30 Idaho 752	32
1921	Young v. Anderson†	33 Idaho 522	31
1917	Pettengill v. Blackman· Concurrence†	30 Idaho 241	31
1920	Purkey v. Maby†	33 Idaho 281	30
1918	Beem v. Davis†	31 Idaho 730	30
1920	State v. Marcoe†	33 Idaho 284	28
1917	Brown v. Hardin†	31 Idaho 112	28
1921	Frank v. Davis†	34 Idaho 678	26
1934	Idaho Gold Dredging Corp. v. Boise Payette Lumber Co.	37 P.2d 407	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 190 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 C. Rice on?: John C. Rice 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).