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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1959

E V. Holland

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

E V. Holland was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1880 · age 146
Tenure: 1933–1959 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Holland authored 538 published opinions for the court (1933–1958), plus 36 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. People (91 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. 141 of these were attributed to Holland 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
1952	Walker v. People· Dissent†	248 P.2d 287	91
1952	Tate v. People	247 P.2d 665	75
1958	Leick v. People· Dissent†	322 P.2d 674	67
1934	Otis Elevator Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.	33 P.2d 974	55
1955	City & County of Denver v. Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District· Separate†	276 P.2d 992	54
1934	Universal Indemnity Insurance v. Tenery	39 P.2d 776	49
1951	City of Englewood v. City & County of Denver	229 P.2d 667	48
1952	People Ex Rel. Public Utilities Commission v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.· Dissent†	243 P.2d 397	41
1954	People v. Urso	269 P.2d 709	39
1950	Iacino v. Brown	217 P.2d 266	38
1951	Lininger v. Knight	226 P.2d 809	37
1956	Ewing v. Colorado Farm Mutual Casualty Co.	296 P.2d 1040	36
1955	Iowa Mutual Insurance Company v. Addy†	286 P.2d 622	36
1954	Ress v. Rediess	278 P.2d 183	36
1952	Kallnbach v. People· Dissent†	242 P.2d 222	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 581 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 E V. Holland on?: E V. Holland was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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25 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).