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Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1976

Edward C. Day

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Edward C. Day was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1999
Tenure: 1957–1976 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Regis University
University of Colorado Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Day authored 998 published opinions for the court (1957–1976), plus 26 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Lamson v. Commercial Credit Corporation (519 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. 483 of these were attributed to Day 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
1975	Lamson v. Commercial Credit Corporation	531 P.2d 966	519
1974	People v. Martinez	523 P.2d 120	497
1964	Maes v. People· Dissent†	396 P.2d 457	346
1958	Diernfeld v. People	323 P.2d 628	343
1961	Miller v. L. C. Fulenwider, Inc.	362 P.2d 570	186
1973	Green v. CASTLE CONCRETE COMPANY	509 P.2d 588	171
1976	Travelers Indemnity Company v. Barnes	552 P.2d 300	151
1974	People v. Rivera	525 P.2d 431	136
1970	Linley v. Hanson	477 P.2d 453	116
1964	Lewis v. Buckskin Joe's, Inc.· Concurrence†	396 P.2d 933	70
1961	Baum v. City and County of Denver	363 P.2d 688	63
1957	Davis v. Bonebrake· Dissent†	313 P.2d 982	61
1971	Evans v. Board of County Commissioners· Dissent†	174 Colo. 97	60
1968	City of Westminster v. Church	445 P.2d 52	55
1974	Ford Leasing Development Co. v. Board of County Commissioners	528 P.2d 237	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,034 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 Edward C. Day on?: Edward C. Day was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).