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 1921 / Served to 1931

Greeley W. Whitford

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Greeley W. Whitford was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1931 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Whitford authored 133 published opinions for the court (1921–1930), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Bennie v. Triangle Ranch Co. (38 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. 52 of these were attributed to Whitford 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
1923	Bennie v. Triangle Ranch Co.†	73 Colo. 586	38
1926	Blass v. People	247 P. 177	21
1929	People Ex Rel. Colorado Bar Ass'n v. Lindsey	283 P. 539	16
1928	Yampa Valley Coal Co. v. Velotta	263 P. 717	15
1922	Horne v. Hopper	211 P. 665	15
1925	Hendricks v. People	241 P. 734	14
1925	Denver Alfalfa Milling & Products Co. v. Erickson	239 P. 17	14
1925	Evans Fuel Co. v. Leyda	236 P. 1023	14
1930	Popham v. Duncan	285 P. 757	12
1922	Mogote-Northeastern Consolidated Ditch Co. v. Gallegos†	70 Colo. 550	12
1922	Hays v. Arbuckle†	72 Colo. 328	10
1921	Hukill v. McGinnis†	70 Colo. 455	10
1927	Williams v. Hankins	258 P. 1114	9
1921	Witherspoon v. Hornbein†	70 Colo. 1	9
1930	Weiss v. People	285 P. 162	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 Greeley W. Whitford on?: Greeley W. Whitford was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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