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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1954 / Served to 1958

George W. Worthen

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

George W. Worthen was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1958
Tenure: 1954–1958 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Worthen authored 98 published opinions for the court (1930–1959), plus 11 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Wilson v. Wilson (49 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. 71 of these were attributed to Worthen 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
1956	Wilson v. Wilson· Concurrence†	296 P.2d 977	49
1957	State v. Sibert· Concurrence†	310 P.2d 388	35
1957	Kent Club v. Toronto· Dissent†	305 P.2d 870	31
1956	De Weese v. JC PENNY COMPANY· Dissent†	297 P.2d 898	31
1955	Parkinson v. Watson· Concurrence†	291 P.2d 400	31
1957	Gould v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.	309 P.2d 802	30
1956	University of Utah v. Board of Examiners of State	295 P.2d 348	30
1957	State Ex Rel. Road Commission v. Noble	305 P.2d 495	29
1958	Bodon Ex Rel. Bodon v. Suhrmann· Concurrence†	327 P.2d 826	27
1957	Paul v. Kirkendall	311 P.2d 376	26
1959	State v. Twitchell	333 P.2d 1075	24
1955	Blackham v. Snelgrove	280 P.2d 453	23
1958	Johnson v. Johnson· Dissent†	323 P.2d 16	21
1957	Bair v. Layton City Corporation· Concurrence†	307 P.2d 895	21
1955	Lovett v. Continental Bank and Trust Company· Concurrence†	286 P.2d 1065	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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. Worthen on?: George W. Worthen was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).