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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1941

Francis E. Bouck

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

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

Lived: 1873–1941
Tenure: 1933–1941 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bouck authored 191 published opinions for the court (1933–1941), plus 48 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Morrison v. Goodspeed (144 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. 67 of these were attributed to Bouck 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
1937	Morrison v. Goodspeed· Dissent†	68 P.2d 458	144
1933	Ingles v. People· Concurrence†	22 P.2d 1109	69
1936	Van DeVegt v. Board of County Commissioners· Separate†	55 P.2d 703	68
1938	Bedford v. Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp.· Concurrence†	81 P.2d 752	59
1934	Reppin v. People· Concurrence†	34 P.2d 71	48
1937	American Insurance v. Naylor	70 P.2d 349	35
1938	Rinn v. Bedford	102 Colo. 475	29
1938	Roberts v. People· Dissent†	87 P.2d 251	28
1935	Dunbar v. Olivieri	50 P.2d 64	26
1933	Miller v. People· Dissent†	22 P.2d 626	26
1935	Webb v. People	49 P.2d 381	24
1933	London Guarantee & Accident Co. v. Sauer & Industrial Commission	22 P.2d 624	22
1936	McCaffrey v. Mitchell· Concurrence†	56 P.2d 926	21
1933	Reimer v. Town of Holyoke· Dissent†	27 P.2d 1032	20
1938	Barlow v. Hoffman	86 P.2d 239	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 256 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 Francis E. Bouck on?: Francis E. Bouck was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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8 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).