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Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1946

Martin Magnuss Larson

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Martin Magnuss Larson was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1885 · age 141
Tenure: 1937–1946 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Larson authored 204 published opinions for the court (1934–1956), plus 73 dissents and 95 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. 8 of these were attributed to Larson 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· Dissent	78 P.2d 920	83
1943	State v. Crank	142 P.2d 178	80
1941	Mulcahy v. Public Service Commission	117 P.2d 298	66
1945	Pacific Automobile Ins. v. Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. of New York	161 P.2d 423	65
1940	Creameries of America, Inc. v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence	102 P.2d 300	65
1940	Fuller Brush Co. v. Industrial Commission	104 P.2d 201	64
1946	Walton v. Koffman Et Ux.· Dissent	169 P.2d 97	63
1946	Big Cottonwood Tanner Ditch Co. v. Moyle· Concurrence	174 P.2d 148	55
1937	Attorney General of Utah v. Pomeroy· Concurrence	73 P.2d 1277	54
1937	Browning v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.· Concurrence	72 P.2d 1060	51
1939	State v. Lingman· Concurrence	91 P.2d 457	50
1940	Norville v. State Tax Commission· Separate	97 P.2d 937	44
1943	Marshall v. Salt Lake City	141 P.2d 704	42
1939	Keigley v. Bench, City Recorder· Dissent	89 P.2d 480	42
1943	Singer Sewing MacH. Co. v. Industrial Commission	134 P.2d 479	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 374 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 Martin Magnuss Larson on?: Martin Magnuss Larson was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).