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

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1975 / Served to 1981

Richard R. Maughan

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Richard R. Maughan was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–1981
Tenure: 1975–1981 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Utah State University
University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Maughan authored 296 published opinions for the court (1975–1981), plus 111 dissents and 32 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. 217 of these were attributed to Maughan 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
1980	Dugan v. Jones	615 P.2d 1239	101
1980	Nixdorf v. Hicken	612 P.2d 348	87
1980	State v. Anderson	612 P.2d 778	76
1978	State v. Gerrard· Dissent†	584 P.2d 885	73
1977	English v. English	565 P.2d 409	73
1978	Baird v. State	574 P.2d 713	71
1980	State v. Lamm· Dissent†	606 P.2d 229	68
1979	Terry v. Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution	605 P.2d 314	67
1979	Norman v. Murray First Thrift & Loan Co.	596 P.2d 1028	63
1981	State v. Lee· Dissent†	633 P.2d 48	59
1975	Bryan v. Utah International	533 P.2d 892	59
1980	State v. Brown· Concurrence†	607 P.2d 261	57
1979	Baker v. Matheson· Dissent†	607 P.2d 233	50
1979	FMA Financial Corp. v. Pro-Printers	590 P.2d 803	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 439 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 Richard R. Maughan on?: Richard R. Maughan was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).