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 1949 / Served to 1969

O Otto Moore

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

O Otto Moore was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1990
Tenure: 1949–1969 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Denver
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 1,423 published opinions for the court (1929–1969), plus 35 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Passe v. Mitchell (514 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. 723 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1967	Passe v. Mitchell†	161 Colo. 501	514
1961	Haskell v. Gross†	145 Colo. 365	511
1954	Pettingell v. Moede· Dissent†	271 P.2d 1038	243
1968	Harvel v. District Court in & for County of Jefferson	444 P.2d 629	176
1956	Denver National Bank v. McLagan	298 P.2d 386	174
1968	People v. District Court for County of Jefferson	439 P.2d 741	114
1963	Smith v. Miller	384 P.2d 738	112
1958	City of Canon City v. Merris· Concurrence†	323 P.2d 614	86
1962	Oaks v. People· Dissent†	371 P.2d 443	77
1964	Lewis v. Buckskin Joe's, Inc.· Concurrence†	396 P.2d 933	70
1959	Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company· Dissent†	334 P.2d 1077	67
1968	Fellhauer v. People· Dissent†	167 Colo. 320	63
1961	Nettrour v. JC Penney Company	360 P.2d 964	60
1965	People v. Stark and Peacock	400 P.2d 923	57
1964	Denver Bar Association v. Public Utilities Commission· Concurrence†	391 P.2d 467	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,475 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 O Otto Moore on?: O Otto Moore was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 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).