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 1909 / Served to 1922

Morton S. Bailey

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Morton S. Bailey was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1909. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1855–1922
Tenure: 1909–1922 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1909	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Lafayette College

Judicial Record

In our data, Bailey authored 309 published opinions for the court (1906–1922), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Empire Ranch & Cattle Co. v. Coldren (120 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. 308 of these were attributed to Bailey 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
1911	Empire Ranch & Cattle Co. v. Coldren†	51 Colo. 115	120
1919	City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.· Separate†	67 Colo. 225	52
1913	Comstock v. Ramsay†	55 Colo. 244	48
1912	Munson v. Marks†	52 Colo. 553	44
1919	Interstate Trust Co. v. Montezuma Valley Irrigation District†	66 Colo. 219	42
1909	Schwartz v. People†	46 Colo. 239	39
1910	Page v. Gillett†	47 Colo. 289	38
1913	Young v. People†	54 Colo. 293	37
1917	Industrial Commission v. Anderson†	69 Colo. 147	36
1910	Vogel v. Minnesota Canal & Reservoir Co.†	47 Colo. 534	36
1910	Young v. People	47 Colo. 352	34
1916	Fruitland Irrigation Co. v. Kruemling†	62 Colo. 160	32
1911	Kirby v. Union Pacific Railway Co.†	51 Colo. 509	32
1910	Mustang Reservoir, Canal & Land Co. v. Hissman†	49 Colo. 308	29
1909	Wilson v. Board of Regents of the University of Colorado†	46 Colo. 100	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 311 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 Morton S. Bailey on?: Morton S. Bailey was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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13 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).