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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1889 / Served to 1898

Charles D. Hayt

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Charles D. Hayt was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1889. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1889–1898 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1889	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hayt authored 191 published opinions for the court (1889–1897), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Plummer v. Struby-Estabrooke Mercantile Co. (330 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. 195 of these were attributed to Hayt 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
1896	Plummer v. Struby-Estabrooke Mercantile Co.†	23 Colo. 190	330
1891	Strickler v. City of Colorado Springs†	16 Colo. 61	95
1889	Denver City Irrigation & Water Co. v. Middaugh†	12 Colo. 434	73
1896	Farmers Independent Ditch Co. v. Agricultural Ditch Co.†	22 Colo. 513	52
1889	Farmers' High Line Canal & Reservoir Co. v. Southworth†	13 Colo. 111	50
1890	Great West Min. Co. v. Woodmas of Alston Min. Co.†	14 Colo. 90	43
1892	City of Denver v. Knowles†	17 Colo. 204	40
1893	Catron v. Board of County Commissioners†	18 Colo. 553	35
1896	Ritchey v. People· Separate†	23 Colo. 314	33
1893	In re Continuing Appropriations†	18 Colo. 192	31
1894	Jordan v. People	19 Colo. 417	30
1892	People ex rel. Eaton v. District Court†	18 Colo. 26	30
1892	Burlington & Colorado R. R. v. Liehe†	17 Colo. 280	30
1893	Kindel v. Beck & Pauli Lithographing Co.†	19 Colo. 310	29
1892	Allen v. Glynn†	17 Colo. 338	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 197 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 D. Hayt on?: Charles D. Hayt 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).