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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1932 / Served to 1932

Robert D. Leeper

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Robert D. Leeper was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1932. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1932–1932

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1932	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Leeper authored 21 published opinions for the court (1932), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Diefendorf v. Gallet (78 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. 1 of these was attributed to Leeper 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
1932	Diefendorf v. Gallet	10 P.2d 307	78
1932	Meyers v. City of Idaho Falls	11 P.2d 626	45
1932	Schlieff v. Bistline	15 P.2d 726	34
1932	Hartley v. Bohrer	11 P.2d 616	28
1932	State v. Copenbarger	16 P.2d 383	24
1932	Evans v. City of American Falls	11 P.2d 363	22
1932	Oregon Short Line R. R. Co. v. Berg· Dissent	16 P.2d 373	16
1932	Ruthruff v. Ruthruff· Concurrence	14 P.2d 958	12
1932	Whicher v. Delaware Mines Corp.	15 P.2d 610	12
1932	State v. Morrison· Dissent	11 P.2d 619	12
1932	Aker v. Aker	8 P.2d 777	12
1932	Clark v. Utah Construction Co.	8 P.2d 454	11
1932	Common School District No. 18 v. Twin Falls Bank & Trust Co.†	52 Idaho 200	10
1932	Hustead v. H. E. Brown Timber Co.	17 P.2d 927	9
1932	Baldwin v. Anderson· Dissent	13 P.2d 650	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 25 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 D. Leeper on?: Robert D. Leeper was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1932. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).