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 1901

Joseph W. Huston

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Joseph W. Huston was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1891. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1891–1901 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1891	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Huston authored 176 published opinions for the court (1891–1900), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ellington (30 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. 187 of these were attributed to Huston 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
1895	State v. Ellington†	4 Idaho 529	30
1895	Worden v. Witt†	4 Idaho 404	29
1897	Vermont Loan & Trust Co. v. Hoffman· Separate†	5 Idaho 376	25
1895	Rankin v. Jauman†	4 Idaho 394	23
1894	State v. Reed†	3 Idaho 754	23
1899	State v. Anderson†	6 Idaho 706	22
1899	State v. Baker†	6 Idaho 496	20
1898	McGinness v. Stanfield†	6 Idaho 372	19
1897	Pyke v. Steunenberg†	5 Idaho 614	19
1896	Hampton v. Commissioners of Logan County†	4 Idaho 646	19
1900	Salisbury v. Lane†	7 Idaho 370	18
1899	State v. Potter†	6 Idaho 584	17
1899	Barnes v. Buffalo Pitts Co.†	6 Idaho 519	17
1897	State v. Gordon†	5 Idaho 297	17
1896	County of Ada v. Bullen Bridge Co.†	5 Idaho 79	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 187 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 Joseph W. Huston on?: Joseph W. Huston was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).