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 1917 / Served to 1927

George W. Allen

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

George W. Allen was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1917. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1917–1927 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1917	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Allen authored 372 published opinions for the court (1917–1926), plus 7 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Gibbs v. Ison (512 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. 290 of these were attributed to Allen 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
1924	Gibbs v. Ison	230 P. 784	512
1920	Carroll v. Industrial Commission†	69 Colo. 473	82
1922	Milheim v. Moffat Tunnel Improvement District· Concurrence†	72 Colo. 268	57
1917	Hutchins v. Haffner†	63 Colo. 365	37
1923	People ex rel. Setters v. Lee†	72 Colo. 598	32
1922	Pitts v. National Independent Fisheries Co.†	71 Colo. 316	26
1925	Westesen v. Olathe State Bank	240 P. 689	25
1921	Turnbull v. Cole· Dissent†	70 Colo. 364	25
1917	Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. School District No. 1†	63 Colo. 159	25
1922	Clatworthy v. Ferguson†	72 Colo. 259	23
1920	Dickens v. Barnham†	69 Colo. 349	23
1920	County of Larimer v. City of Fort Collins†	68 Colo. 364	23
1917	People v. Hopper†	69 Colo. 124	22
1920	Industrial Commission v. Funk†	68 Colo. 467	21
1923	Columbine Laundry Co. v. Industrial Commission†	73 Colo. 397	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 381 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 George W. Allen on?: George W. Allen was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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10 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).