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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1939 / Served to 1950

Eugene C. Pratt

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Eugene C. Pratt was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1892 · age 134
Tenure: 1939–1950 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pratt authored 160 published opinions for the court (1930–1950), plus 46 dissents and 51 concurrences. Most cited: Mulcahy v. Public Service Commission (66 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. 25 of these were attributed to Pratt 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
1941	Mulcahy v. Public Service Commission· Dissent	117 P.2d 298	66
1940	Creameries of America, Inc. v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence	102 P.2d 300	65
1940	Fuller Brush Co. v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence	104 P.2d 201	64
1946	Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. Moyle· Concurrence	174 P.2d 148	55
1948	Haslam v. Morrison, District Judge· Concurrence	190 P.2d 520	38
1947	Adamson Et Ux. v. Brockbank· Dissent	185 P.2d 264	37
1950	Sine v. Harper· Dissent†	222 P.2d 571	36
1949	Mingus v. Olsson· Concurrence	201 P.2d 495	33
1948	Thomas v. Daughters of Utah Pioneers· Dissent	197 P.2d 477	33
1941	State v. Johnson· Concurrence	114 P.2d 1034	33
1950	Davis v. Ogden City· Dissent†	215 P.2d 616	31
1950	Duffy v. Union Pac. R. Co.· Concurrence†	218 P.2d 1080	30
1949	King v. Union Pac. R. Co.· Dissent	212 P.2d 692	27
1949	Riordan v. Westwood· Dissent	203 P.2d 922	27
1949	Thatcher v. Industrial Commission· Dissent	207 P.2d 178	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 258 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 Eugene C. Pratt on?: Eugene C. Pratt was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).