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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1951 / Served to 1981

J Allen Crockett

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

J Allen Crockett was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1994
Tenure: 1951–1981 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah
University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Crockett authored 1,077 published opinions for the court (1943–2003), plus 196 dissents and 292 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Pierre (121 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. 661 of these were attributed to Crockett 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
1977	State v. Pierre· Concurrence†	572 P.2d 1338	121
1952	Pace v. Parrish	247 P.2d 273	118
1961	Samms v. Eccles	358 P.2d 344	105
1961	Charlton v. Hackett	360 P.2d 176	97
1974	Greaves v. State	528 P.2d 805	85
1969	State v. Shondel	453 P.2d 146	78
1980	State v. Anderson· Concurrence†	612 P.2d 778	76
1952	Perkins v. Spencer	243 P.2d 446	72
1968	Brown v. Turner	440 P.2d 968	71
1980	Standiford v. Salt Lake City Corp.· Dissent†	605 P.2d 1230	70
1951	MacDonald v. MacDonald	236 P.2d 1066	69
1952	Stickle v. Union Pacific R. Co.	251 P.2d 867	66
1978	Searle Bros. v. Searle· Dissent†	588 P.2d 689	64
1973	State v. Valdez· Concurrence†	513 P.2d 422	63
1953	Hillyard v. Utah By-Products Co.	263 P.2d 287	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,565 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 J Allen Crockett on?: J Allen Crockett was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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30 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).