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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1951 / Served to 1976

F Henri Henriod

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

F Henri Henriod was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1986
Tenure: 1951–1976 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Henriod authored 784 published opinions for the court (1951–1982), plus 221 dissents and 199 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Shondel (78 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. 886 of these were attributed to Henriod 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
1969	State v. Shondel· Dissent†	453 P.2d 146	78
1951	MacDonald v. MacDonald· Concurrence†	236 P.2d 1066	69
1963	Cheney v. Rucker· Dissent†	381 P.2d 86	58
1952	State v. Packard· Concurrence†	250 P.2d 561	58
1974	Cannon v. Oviatt· Concurrence†	520 P.2d 883	55
1954	Fife v. Fife	265 P.2d 642	51
1969	Limb v. Federated Milk Producers Association· Dissent†	461 P.2d 290	49
1958	Carlson v. Hamilton	332 P.2d 989	49
1968	Christiansen v. Rees· Dissent†	436 P.2d 435	48
1962	De Vas v. Noble· Dissent†	369 P.2d 290	47
1971	State v. Tapp· Dissent†	490 P.2d 334	42
1972	Bullfrog Marina, Inc. v. Lentz· Concurrence†	501 P.2d 266	40
1960	Springville Banking Co. v. Burton	349 P.2d 157	40
1952	Northcrest, Inc. v. WALKER BANK & TRUST CO.· Concurrence†	248 P.2d 692	40
1974	Baggs v. Anderson· Dissent†	528 P.2d 141	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,204 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 F Henri Henriod on?: F Henri Henriod was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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25 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).