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Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1979 / Served to 1987

Jean E. Dubofsky

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Jean E. Dubofsky was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1979–1987 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dubofsky authored 281 published opinions for the court (1979–1987), plus 24 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Vigil (854 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. 117 of these were attributed to Dubofsky 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
1986	People v. Vigil	718 P.2d 496	854
1982	Gimmy v. People	645 P.2d 262	694
1982	In Re the Marriage of Mann	655 P.2d 814	379
1981	People v. Gutierrez· Dissent†	622 P.2d 547	323
1981	Colgan v. State, Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division†	623 P.2d 871	316
1982	People v. Mattas	645 P.2d 254	303
1987	Cox v. People	735 P.2d 153	189
1982	Lujan v. Colorado State Board of Education· Dissent†	649 P.2d 1005	138
1983	Burns v. McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Co., Inc.· Dissent†	659 P.2d 1351	116
1980	Charnes v. DiGiacomo	612 P.2d 1117	111
1984	Austin v. Litvak· Concurrence†	682 P.2d 41	107
1983	Cosmopolitan Homes, Inc. v. Weller†	663 P.2d 1041	107
1985	KN Energy, Inc. v. Great Western Sugar Co.	698 P.2d 769	104
1984	Engelbrecht v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.	680 P.2d 231	100
1981	Ricci v. Davis	627 P.2d 1111	94

Showing the 15 most-cited of 323 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 Jean E. Dubofsky on?: Jean E. Dubofsky was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).