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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1966

Albert T. Frantz

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Albert T. Frantz was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1966
Tenure: 1957–1966 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Frantz authored 215 published opinions for the court (1957–1967), plus 62 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Maes v. People (346 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. 155 of these were attributed to Frantz 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
1964	Maes v. People	396 P.2d 457	346
1959	Stull v. People†	140 Colo. 278	237
1964	Carpenter v. Donohoe	388 P.2d 399	127
1958	City of Canon City v. Merris	323 P.2d 614	86
1962	Oaks v. People	371 P.2d 443	77
1962	Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. v. Industrial Commission	379 P.2d 153	75
1964	Lewis v. Buckskin Joe's, Inc.· Concurrence†	396 P.2d 933	70
1958	Leick v. People	322 P.2d 674	67
1957	Davis v. Bonebrake	313 P.2d 982	61
1959	Lucas v. District Court· Concurrence†	345 P.2d 1064	60
1958	Davidson Chevrolet, Inc. v. City & County of Denver	330 P.2d 1116	59
1960	Vogts v. Guerrette· Dissent†	351 P.2d 851	58
1964	Denver Bar Association v. Public Utilities Commission	391 P.2d 467	56
1960	Lee v. Durango Music	355 P.2d 1083	53
1957	Ace Flying Service, Inc. v. Colorado Department of Agriculture· Dissent†	314 P.2d 278	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 309 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 Colorado Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Albert T. Frantz on?: Albert T. Frantz was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 years on the Colorado Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).