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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1989 / Served to 1992

Larry Monroe Boyle

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Larry Monroe Boyle was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1989–1992 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boyle authored 73 published opinions for the court (1989–1992), plus 11 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Sun Valley Shopping Center, Inc. v. Idaho Power Co. (492 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. 32 of these were attributed to Boyle 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
1991	Sun Valley Shopping Center, Inc. v. Idaho Power Co.· Dissent†	803 P.2d 993	492
1991	Tanner v. State, Department of Health & Welfare	818 P.2d 310	288
1991	G&M Farms v. Funk Irrigation Co.	808 P.2d 851	172
1991	State v. Pizzuto	810 P.2d 680	162
1991	State v. Enno	807 P.2d 610	156
1990	Olsen v. J.A. Freeman Co.	791 P.2d 1285	151
1991	State v. Card	825 P.2d 1081	148
1990	George W. Watkins Family v. Messenger	797 P.2d 1385	132
1992	State v. Lavy	828 P.2d 871	123
1991	McCoy v. Lyons	820 P.2d 360	89
1991	Bonz v. Sudweeks	808 P.2d 876	89
1991	J.R. Simplot Company, Inc. v. Idaho State Tax Commission	820 P.2d 1206	83
1990	State v. Carrasco	787 P.2d 281	83
1991	State v. Moore	819 P.2d 1143	77
1991	Bradshaw v. State	816 P.2d 986	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Larry Monroe Boyle on?: Larry Monroe Boyle was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).