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

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Wyoming Supreme Court / Joined 1928 / Served to 1955

William A. Riner

Justice, Wyoming Supreme Court

William A. Riner was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1928. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1955
Tenure: 1928–1955 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1928	Wyoming Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Riner authored 485 published opinions for the court (1924–1955), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Baldwin v. Scullion (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. 18 of these were attributed to Riner 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
1936	Baldwin v. Scullion	62 P.2d 531	73
1946	Jacoby v. City of Gillette	174 P.2d 505	67
1946	Price v. State Highway Commission	167 P.2d 309	60
1947	State v. Hickenbottom	178 P.2d 119	57
1945	Fuchs Murane v. Goe	163 P.2d 783	55
1944	Anderson v. Wyoming Development Co.	154 P.2d 318	50
1954	Ball Ex Rel. Ball v. Ball	269 P.2d 302	42
1941	Civic Ass'n of Wyoming v. Railway Motor Fuels, Inc.	116 P.2d 236	39
1938	Fox Park Timber Co. v. Baker	84 P.2d 736	39
1947	State v. Cantrell	186 P.2d 539	37
1947	Jensen v. Manning & Brown, Inc.	178 P.2d 897	37
1933	Tobin v. Town Council	17 P.2d 666	37
1937	Casper Nationak Bank v. Curry	65 P.2d 1116	36
1949	Russell v. Curran	206 P.2d 1159	35
1945	State Ex Rel. Schwartz v. Jones	157 P.2d 993	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 493 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 Wyoming Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William A. Riner on?: William A. Riner was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

Sources

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