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Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1939 / Served to 1966

Roger I. McDonough

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Roger I. McDonough was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1966
Tenure: 1939–1966 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, McDonough authored 434 published opinions for the court (1939–1966), plus 36 dissents and 80 concurrences. Most cited: Creameries of America, Inc. v. Industrial Commission (65 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. 92 of these were attributed to McDonough 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
1940	Creameries of America, Inc. v. Industrial Commission	102 P.2d 300	65
1940	Fuller Brush Co. v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence	104 P.2d 201	64
1943	Marshall v. Salt Lake City· Concurrence	141 P.2d 704	42
1939	Keigley v. Bench, City Recorder	89 P.2d 480	42
1944	State v. Russell· Dissent	145 P.2d 1003	40
1941	Niblock v. Salt Lake City	111 P.2d 800	40
1957	Joseph v. W. H. Groves Latter Day Saints Hospital· Dissent†	318 P.2d 330	39
1957	Continental Bank and Trust Company v. Bybee	306 P.2d 773	38
1953	Warren v. Dixon Ranch Co.	260 P.2d 741	37
1952	Park v. Moorman Mfg. Co.	241 P.2d 914	36
1945	Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Public Service Commission	155 P.2d 184	36
1956	Fretz v. Anderson	300 P.2d 642	35
1943	Provo River Water Users' Ass'n v. Carlson	133 P.2d 777	34
1959	Johnson v. Maynard	342 P.2d 884	33
1956	State v. Ashdown	296 P.2d 726	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 551 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 Roger I. McDonough on?: Roger I. McDonough was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

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27 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).