How do judges of the Colorado Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1907 / Served to 1907

Charles F. Caswell

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Charles F. Caswell was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1907. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1907–1907

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1907	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Caswell authored 24 published opinions for the court (1907). Most cited: Estate of Klipfel v. Klipfel (36 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. 23 of these were attributed to Caswell 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
1907	Estate of Klipfel v. Klipfel	41 Colo. 40	36
1907	Webber v. Wannemaker†	39 Colo. 425	25
1907	Holmquist v. Gilbert†	41 Colo. 113	21
1907	Foot v. Burr†	41 Colo. 192	15
1907	National Mutual Fire Insurance v. Sprague†	40 Colo. 344	15
1907	Jenks v. Stump†	41 Colo. 281	12
1907	Wright v. Ulrich†	40 Colo. 437	9
1907	Mosca Town Co. v. Wellington†	39 Colo. 326	9
1907	O'Neil v. Fort Lyon Canal Co.†	39 Colo. 487	8
1907	Clammer v. Eddy†	41 Colo. 235	7
1907	Montgomery v. Whitehead†	40 Colo. 320	7
1907	Brereton v. Benedict†	41 Colo. 16	6
1907	Peck v. Alexander†	40 Colo. 392	6
1907	Bothwell v. Denver Union Stockyards Co.†	39 Colo. 221	6
1907	Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Olsson†	40 Colo. 264	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Charles F. Caswell on?: Charles F. Caswell was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1907. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).