How do judges of the Utah Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1979 / Served to 2000

Isaac D. Stewart

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Isaac D. Stewart was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1979–2000 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah
University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Stewart authored 541 published opinions for the court (1979–2000), plus 103 dissents and 107 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Dunn (447 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. 277 of these were attributed to Stewart 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
1993	State v. Dunn· Concurrence†	850 P.2d 1201	447
1994	State v. Menzies· Concurrence†	889 P.2d 393	259
1988	State v. Bishop· Concurrence†	753 P.2d 439	250
1988	State v. Lafferty· Concurrence†	749 P.2d 1239	244
1985	Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft	717 P.2d 670	214
1987	State v. Tillman· Concurrence†	750 P.2d 546	213
1992	State v. Hamilton· Concurrence†	827 P.2d 232	203
1982	State v. Wood	648 P.2d 71	180
1991	Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange· Concurrence†	817 P.2d 789	162
1984	Malan v. Lewis	693 P.2d 661	160
1982	In re J. P.· Dissent†	648 P.2d 1364	149
1988	State v. Shickles	760 P.2d 291	137
1985	Resource Management Co. v. Weston Ranch	706 P.2d 1028	131
1991	Brehany v. Nordstrom, Inc.	812 P.2d 49	121
1983	Codianna v. Morris· Concurrence†	660 P.2d 1101	119

Showing the 15 most-cited of 751 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 Isaac D. Stewart on?: Isaac D. Stewart was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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21 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).