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 1945 / Served to 1955

Mortimer Stone

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Mortimer Stone was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1882 · age 144
Tenure: 1945–1955 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stone authored 202 published opinions for the court (1945–2000), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Nielson v. Newmyer (171 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. 45 of these were attributed to Stone 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
1951	Nielson v. Newmyer	228 P.2d 456	171
1946	Eaddy v. People	174 P.2d 717	111
1955	City & County of Denver v. Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District	276 P.2d 992	54
1946	Hatfield v. Barnes	168 P.2d 552	53
1948	Battalino v. People	199 P.2d 897	50
1945	McMillin v. McMillin	158 P.2d 444	48
1952	Yenter v. Baker	248 P.2d 311	46
1952	St. Lukes Hospital Ass'n v. Long	240 P.2d 917	46
1950	Gossard v. Watson	221 P.2d 353	44
1951	Golden Press, Inc. v. Rylands	235 P.2d 592	43
1951	Safranek v. Town of Limon	228 P.2d 975	40
1949	McNichols v. City & County of Denver	209 P.2d 910	36
1953	Mauldin v. Lowery	255 P.2d 976	34
1951	Brighton Ditch Co. v. City of Englewood	237 P.2d 116	34
1946	United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local Union No. 55 v. Salter	167 P.2d 954	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 216 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 Mortimer Stone on?: Mortimer Stone was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).