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

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1918 / Served to 1949

Haslett P. Burke

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Haslett P. Burke was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1918. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1874 · age 152
Tenure: 1918–1949 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1918	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Burke authored 806 published opinions for the court (1919–1948), plus 25 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Green v. Pullen (313 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. 251 of these were attributed to Burke 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
1946	Green v. Pullen	173 P.2d 458	313
1944	Rosane v. Senger	149 P.2d 372	91
1925	Industrial Commission v. Hammond	236 P. 1006	57
1919	City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.· Concurrence†	67 Colo. 225	52
1932	City & County of Denver v. Lynch	18 P.2d 907	51
1934	Reppin v. People· Dissent†	34 P.2d 71	48
1936	People v. Hinderlider	57 P.2d 894	47
1933	Walker v. Bedford· Separate	26 P.2d 1051	46
1927	Boyd v. Close	257 P. 1079	46
1927	Aetna Life Insurance v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence†	254 P. 995	45
1940	Bedford v. White· Dissent†	106 P.2d 469	41
1925	Ezell v. Rocky Mountain Bean & Elevator Co.	232 P. 680	41
1937	Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Hemenover	67 P.2d 80	39
1932	Fitzsimmons v. Olinger Mortuary Ass'n	17 P.2d 535	39
1925	Lowe v. People	234 P. 169	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 846 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 Haslett P. Burke on?: Haslett P. Burke was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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31 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).