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Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1979 / Served to 1995

Luis D. Rovira

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Luis D. Rovira was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1923 · age 103
Tenure: 1979–1995 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rovira authored 472 published opinions for the court (1979–1995), plus 88 dissents and 70 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Marriage of Gallo (929 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. 268 of these were attributed to Rovira 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
1988	In Re Marriage of Gallo	752 P.2d 47	929
1990	People v. Johnson	797 P.2d 1296	594
1979	Pinelli v. DIST. CT. IN & FOR 18TH JUD. DIST.	595 P.2d 225	593
1984	People v. Curtis· Dissent†	681 P.2d 504	530
1993	D.A.S. v. People	863 P.2d 291	426
1984	People v. Abbott	690 P.2d 1263	362
1985	Travelers Insurance Co. v. Savio· Dissent†	706 P.2d 1258	315
1988	Churchey v. Adolph Coors Co.· Concurrence†	759 P.2d 1336	302
1984	People v. Moody	676 P.2d 691	301
1988	People v. Drake· Concurrence†	748 P.2d 1237	288
1991	Keller v. A.O. Smith Harvestore Products, Inc.· Dissent†	819 P.2d 69	261
1984	Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc.· Dissent†	684 P.2d 187	243
1983	People v. Quintana· Dissent†	665 P.2d 605	241
1990	People v. Martinez	801 P.2d 542	230
1983	People Ex Rel. Gallagher v. District Court Ex Rel. County of Arapahoe	666 P.2d 550	226

Showing the 15 most-cited of 630 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 Luis D. Rovira on?: Luis D. Rovira was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).