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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1967 / Served to 1979

A H. Ellett

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

A H. Ellett was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1898 · age 128
Tenure: 1967–1979 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ellett authored 539 published opinions for the court (1943–1979), plus 191 dissents and 133 concurrences. Most cited: Orton v. Adams (176 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. 552 of these were attributed to Ellett 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
1968	Orton v. Adams	444 P.2d 62	176
1977	State v. Pierre· Concurrence†	572 P.2d 1338	121
1969	State v. Shondel· Dissent†	453 P.2d 146	78
1978	State v. Gerrard	584 P.2d 885	73
1978	Baird v. State· Concurrence†	574 P.2d 713	71
1971	American States Ins. Co., Western Pac. Div. v. Walker	486 P.2d 1042	68
1978	Searle Bros. v. Searle	588 P.2d 689	64
1976	State v. Romero	554 P.2d 216	58
1968	State v. Poe· Dissent†	441 P.2d 512	56
1978	Gribble v. Gribble	583 P.2d 64	51
1976	Bambrough v. Bethers	552 P.2d 1286	50
1975	Crawford v. Manning	542 P.2d 1091	50
1969	Limb v. Federated Milk Producers Association	461 P.2d 290	49
1975	Greenhalgh v. Payson City· Concurrence†	530 P.2d 799	46
1972	Gallegos Ex Rel. Gallegos v. Midvale City· Dissent†	492 P.2d 1335	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 864 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 Utah Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was A H. Ellett on?: A H. Ellett was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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