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Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1946 / Served to 1951

George W. Latimer

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

George W. Latimer was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1946. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1901–1990
Tenure: 1946–1951 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1946	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah
University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Latimer authored 123 published opinions for the court (1947–1951), plus 18 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: Masich v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. (61 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. 32 of these were attributed to Latimer 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
1948	Masich v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.	191 P.2d 612	61
1950	Bingham v. BD. OF ED. OF OGDEN CITY	223 P.2d 423	49
1949	Purity Biscuit Co. v. Industrial Commission· Dissent	201 P.2d 961	42
1951	LYON v. Bateman	228 P.2d 818	40
1950	State v. Musser· Concurrence†	223 P.2d 193	39
1947	Adamson Et Ux. v. Brockbank	185 P.2d 264	37
1950	Sine v. Harper	222 P.2d 571	36
1951	Erickson v. Walgreen Drug Co.· Concurrence†	232 P.2d 210	34
1950	In RE BEHM'S ESTATE. BEHM v. Gee	213 P.2d 657	34
1948	Thomas v. Daughters of Utah Pioneers· Concurrence	197 P.2d 477	33
1951	Fredrickson v. MAW	227 P.2d 772	32
1948	Olsen v. Reese	200 P.2d 733	32
1950	Davis v. Ogden City	215 P.2d 616	31
1947	In Re Rice's Estate. Rice v. Rice	182 P.2d 111	31
1950	Duffy v. Union Pac. R. Co.	218 P.2d 1080	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 172 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 George W. Latimer on?: George W. Latimer was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

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5 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).