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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 2017 / Active

Robyn M. Brody

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Robyn M. Brody is a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brody authored 56 published opinions for the court (2017–2019), plus 1 dissent and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gonzalez (121 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. 63 of these were attributed to Brody 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
2019	State v. Gonzalez†	439 P.3d 1267	121
2018	State v. Erik Virgil Hall†	419 P.3d 1042	74
2018	Smith v. Smith (In Re Estate of Smith)†	432 P.3d 6	43
2017	Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. MacDonald†	162 Idaho 228	29
2017	State v. Jason Zane Garner†	161 Idaho 708	25
2017	Forbush v. Sagecrest Multi Family Property Owners' Ass'n· Concurrence†	162 Idaho 317	21
2017	Christina J. Greenfield v. Ian D. Smith†	162 Idaho 246	21
2017	State v. Brand & Nall· Dissent†	162 Idaho 189	21
2017	Daniel Paslay v. A&B Irrigation District†	162 Idaho 866	19
2017	State v. James Greer Daly†	161 Idaho 925	19
2019	Regan v. Denney· Concurrence†	437 P.3d 15	18
2018	Idaho Dep't of Health & Welfare v. Doe (In Re Doe)†	415 P.3d 945	17
2019	State v. Lantis†	447 P.3d 875	15
2019	Wadsworth Reese, PLLC v. Siddoway & Co, PC†	445 P.3d 1090	15
2018	Saint Alphonsus Reg'l Med. Ctr. v. Raney†	413 P.3d 742	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 63 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 is Robyn M. Brody on?: Robyn M. Brody is a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 years on the Idaho Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).