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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1897 / Served to 1903

Ralph P. Quarles

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Ralph P. Quarles was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1897. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1897–1903 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1897	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Quarles authored 90 published opinions for the court (1897–1902), plus 7 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Pioneer Irrigation District v. Bradley (49 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. 108 of these were attributed to Quarles 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
1902	Pioneer Irrigation District v. Bradley· Concurrence†	8 Idaho 310	49
1900	Knollin v. Jones†	7 Idaho 466	26
1900	First National Bank of Pocatello v. C. Bunting & Co.†	7 Idaho 27	26
1902	State v. Gilbert†	8 Idaho 346	25
1898	Jaeckel v. Pease†	6 Idaho 131	25
1898	Brown v. Bryan· Separate†	6 Idaho 1	25
1899	Fidelity Savings Ass'n v. Shea†	6 Idaho 405	24
1901	Bannock County v. Bell· Dissent	8 Idaho 1	23
1902	Sweet v. Ballentyne†	8 Idaho 431	22
1901	Rust v. Stewart†	7 Idaho 558	22
1899	People ex rel. Attorney General v. Alturas County†	6 Idaho 418	22
1901	Powell v. Spackman†	7 Idaho 692	21
1899	State v. Baker· Concurrence†	6 Idaho 496	20
1901	Staples v. Rossi†	7 Idaho 618	19
1899	Reynolds v. Board of Commissioners†	6 Idaho 787	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 109 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 Ralph P. Quarles on?: Ralph P. Quarles 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).