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 1909 / Served to 1915

George W. Musser

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

George W. Musser was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1909. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1909–1915 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1909	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Musser authored 114 published opinions for the court (1909–1914), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Phillips v. Denver City Tramway Co. (69 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. 120 of these were attributed to Musser 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
1912	Phillips v. Denver City Tramway Co.†	53 Colo. 458	69
1910	Bryant v. Miller†	48 Colo. 192	45
1912	Sheely v. People†	54 Colo. 136	33
1911	New York Life Insurance v. Pike†	51 Colo. 238	27
1911	Smith v. People· Concurrence†	51 Colo. 270	27
1911	Connecticut Fire Insurance v. Colorado Leasing, Mining & Milling Co.†	50 Colo. 424	25
1912	Neikirk v. Boulder National Bank†	53 Colo. 350	23
1911	Gumaer v. Bell†	51 Colo. 473	23
1911	Lambert v. Murray†	52 Colo. 156	23
1910	City & County of Denver v. Maurer†	47 Colo. 209	21
1912	Speer v. People†	52 Colo. 325	20
1910	Donley v. Bailey†	48 Colo. 373	20
1910	Pribble v. People†	49 Colo. 210	19
1912	Prewitt v. Prewitt†	52 Colo. 522	18
1911	Mountain Water Works Construction Co. v. Holme†	49 Colo. 412	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 121 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. Musser on?: George W. Musser was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).