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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1947 / Served to 1949

Paul W. Hyatt

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Paul W. Hyatt was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1901–1971
Tenure: 1947–1949 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hyatt authored 27 published opinions for the court (1947–1949), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Keenan v. Price (107 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. 2 of these were attributed to Hyatt 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
1948	Keenan v. Price	195 P.2d 662	107
1949	O'Connor v. City of Moscow	202 P.2d 401	66
1948	Morgan v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.	201 P.2d 976	61
1947	Pittman v. Sather	188 P.2d 600	53
1947	State v. Elsen	187 P.2d 976	49
1947	Walker v. Hogue	185 P.2d 708	47
1948	Gifford v. Nottingham	193 P.2d 831	46
1948	Crenshaw v. Crenshaw	199 P.2d 264	41
1948	Yellow Cab Taxi Service v. City of Twin Falls	190 P.2d 681	30
1948	Curtis v. Siebrand Bros. Circus & Carnival Co.· Concurrence	194 P.2d 281	28
1948	Harrison v. Board of County Com'rs	198 P.2d 1013	27
1948	Naccarato v. Village of Priest River	195 P.2d 370	27
1949	Keane v. Allen	202 P.2d 411	21
1948	State Ex Rel. Haworth v. Berntsen	200 P.2d 1007	19
1948	Hiltbrand v. Hiltbrand	193 P.2d 391	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Paul W. Hyatt on?: Paul W. Hyatt was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year 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).