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 1892 / Served to 1901

Luther M. Goddard

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Luther M. Goddard was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1892. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1840 · age 186
Tenure: 1892–1901 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1892	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goddard authored 186 published opinions for the court (1892–1907), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Wyatt v. Larimer & Weld Irrigation Co. (65 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. 188 of these were attributed to Goddard 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
1893	Wyatt v. Larimer & Weld Irrigation Co.†	18 Colo. 298	65
1895	Colorado Mortgage & Investment Co. v. Rees†	21 Colo. 435	50
1893	Connor v. People†	18 Colo. 373	50
1900	Davidson v. Jennings†	27 Colo. 187	44
1894	Warren v. Adams†	19 Colo. 515	40
1894	Robertson v. People†	20 Colo. 279	36
1898	Zang v. Wyant†	25 Colo. 551	34
1895	Arnett v. Linhart†	21 Colo. 188	34
1893	McClure v. Board of County Commissioners†	19 Colo. 122	34
1893	Lamborn v. Bell†	18 Colo. 346	33
1897	Hindry v. Holt†	24 Colo. 464	32
1895	Denver & Rio Grande Railroad v. Sullivan†	21 Colo. 302	32
1893	Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Crisman†	19 Colo. 30	32
1893	Cross v. People†	18 Colo. 321	32
1899	Thompson v. People†	26 Colo. 496	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 190 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 Luther M. Goddard on?: Luther M. Goddard was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).