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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1935 / Served to 1955

James H. Wolfe

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

James H. Wolfe was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1958
Tenure: 1935–1955 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Lehigh University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wolfe authored 426 published opinions for the court (1929–1954), plus 142 dissents and 431 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Mason (83 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. 142 of these were attributed to Wolfe 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
1938	State v. Mason	78 P.2d 920	83
1939	Stanley v. Stanley· Concurrence	94 P.2d 465	74
1941	Mulcahy v. Public Service Commission· Dissent	117 P.2d 298	66
1945	Pacific Automobile Ins. v. Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. of New York· Concurrence	161 P.2d 423	65
1940	Fuller Brush Co. v. Industrial Commission· Dissent	104 P.2d 201	64
1948	Masich v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.· Concurrence	191 P.2d 612	61
1952	Jones v. California Packing Corp.· Dissent†	244 P.2d 640	60
1952	State v. Packard· Dissent†	250 P.2d 561	58
1936	Norris v. Industrial Commission	61 P.2d 413	58
1936	Atwood v. Cox, District Judge	55 P.2d 377	58
1949	Greener v. Greener	212 P.2d 194	56
1941	State v. Erwin· Concurrence	120 P.2d 285	56
1946	Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. Moyle	174 P.2d 148	55
1952	Newcomb v. Ogden City Public School Teachers' Retirement Commission	243 P.2d 941	54
1937	Attorney General of Utah v. Pomeroy	73 P.2d 1277	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,001 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 James H. Wolfe on?: James H. Wolfe was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 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).