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Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1966 / Served to 1976

Robert LeRoy Tuckett

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Robert LeRoy Tuckett was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1988
Tenure: 1966–1976 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah
University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Tuckett authored 360 published opinions for the court (1954–1980), plus 35 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Greaves v. State (85 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. 244 of these were attributed to Tuckett 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
1974	Greaves v. State· Dissent†	528 P.2d 805	85
1974	Milliner v. Elmer Fox and Co.	529 P.2d 806	42
1971	Belt v. Turner	479 P.2d 791	36
1971	State v. Bugger	483 P.2d 442	30
1976	Dehm v. Dehm· Concurrence†	545 P.2d 525	29
1967	Housley v. Anaconda Company	427 P.2d 390	29
1970	Rampton v. Barlow· Concurrence†	464 P.2d 378	27
1976	North Union Canal Company v. Newell· Dissent†	550 P.2d 178	26
1973	Varoz Ex Rel. Varoz v. Sevey	506 P.2d 435	25
1975	Andrus v. State	541 P.2d 1117	24
1969	Memmott v. United States Fuel Company· Dissent†	453 P.2d 155	24
1968	Velasquez Ex Rel. Velasquez v. Pratt· Dissent†	443 P.2d 1020	23
1969	State v. Wilson	453 P.2d 158	22
1968	Salt Lake City v. Allred· Dissent†	437 P.2d 434	22
1967	Powers v. Industrial Commission of Utah	427 P.2d 740	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 413 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 Robert LeRoy Tuckett on?: Robert LeRoy Tuckett was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

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10 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).