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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1921 / Served to 1925

Robert N. Dunn

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Robert N. Dunn was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court (5 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1925 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dunn authored 116 published opinions for the court (1921–1925), plus 4 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Dong Sing (32 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. 112 of these were attributed to Dunn 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
1922	State v. Dong Sing†	35 Idaho 616	32
1924	Short v. Boise Valley Traction Co.†	38 Idaho 593	26
1923	State v. Bilboa· Dissent†	38 Idaho 92	26
1922	State v. Waterman†	36 Idaho 259	26
1922	Cupples v. Stanfield†	35 Idaho 466	19
1924	Albrethsen v. Wood River Land Co.· Separate	231 P. 418	18
1923	State v. Price†	38 Idaho 149	17
1923	McFall v. Arkoosh†	37 Idaho 243	17
1922	Washington County v. First National Bank· Concurrence†	35 Idaho 438	16
1922	Public Utilities Commission v. Natatorium Co.· Dissent†	36 Idaho 287	15
1922	Tapper v. Idaho Irrigation Co.†	36 Idaho 78	15
1921	State v. Poynter†	34 Idaho 504	15
1923	Reubelmann v. Reubelmann†	38 Idaho 159	13
1923	In re the Estate of Peterson†	38 Idaho 195	13
1923	Blake v. Crystalline Lime Co.†	37 Idaho 637	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 125 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 Robert N. Dunn on?: Robert N. Dunn was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

4 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).