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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1961 / Served to 1967

Stanley M. Doyle

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Stanley M. Doyle was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1975
Tenure: 1961–1967 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doyle authored 104 published opinions for the court (1961–1967), plus 6 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. St. Patrick's Hospital (73 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. 45 of these were attributed to Doyle 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
1966	Johnson v. St. Patrick's Hospital· Dissent†	417 P.2d 469	73
1966	Kober v. Stewart	417 P.2d 476	72
1965	State v. Campbell†	146 Mont. 251	62
1964	State v. Cor· Dissent†	396 P.2d 86	62
1965	Bender v. Bender	397 P.2d 957	42
1963	Brannon v. Lewis & Clark County	387 P.2d 706	39
1965	Clark v. Rex Worrall & Canyon Hotels, Inc.	406 P.2d 822	34
1967	Tigh v. College Park Realty Co.	427 P.2d 57	32
1963	Doull v. Wohlschlager· Dissent†	377 P.2d 758	31
1967	Grey v. Silver Bow County· Concurrence†	425 P.2d 819	28
1966	Stordahl v. Rush Implement Company	417 P.2d 95	27
1967	Selway v. Burns	429 P.2d 640	26
1963	State v. Noble· Dissent†	384 P.2d 504	25
1967	State Ex Rel. Nepstad v. Danielson	427 P.2d 689	23
1963	Stocking v. Johnson Flying Service	387 P.2d 312	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 119 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 Montana Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Stanley M. Doyle on?: Stanley M. Doyle was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 years on the Montana Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).