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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1959

William D. Keeton

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

William D. Keeton was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1972
Tenure: 1949–1959 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Keeton authored 170 published opinions for the court (1949–1958), plus 52 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Owen (116 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. 80 of these were attributed to Keeton 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
1953	State v. Owen· Dissent†	253 P.2d 203	116
1952	State v. Evans· Dissent†	245 P.2d 788	105
1952	Hayward v. Yost· Concurrence†	242 P.2d 971	92
1958	State v. Bock· Dissent†	328 P.2d 1065	88
1957	Johns v. SH Kress & Company	307 P.2d 217	88
1950	Hooton v. City of Burley	219 P.2d 651	64
1953	State v. Village of Garden City	265 P.2d 328	60
1954	State v. Weise· Dissent†	273 P.2d 97	54
1950	State v. O'DELL	225 P.2d 1020	52
1949	Lorang v. Hays	209 P.2d 733	52
1951	Lanning v. Sprague	227 P.2d 347	51
1953	Williams v. Bone	259 P.2d 810	47
1949	State v. Kleier	206 P.2d 513	47
1954	Loomis v. Church	277 P.2d 561	43
1953	Richeson v. Kessler	255 P.2d 707	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 230 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 William D. Keeton on?: William D. Keeton was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).