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 1939 / Served to 1942

Otto Bock

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Otto Bock was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1881–1942
Tenure: 1939–1942 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bock authored 126 published opinions for the court (1939–1942), plus 13 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Denver Joint Stock Land Bank v. Markham (183 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. 19 of these were attributed to Bock 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
1940	Denver Joint Stock Land Bank v. Markham	107 P.2d 313	183
1939	Industrial Commission v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance	88 P.2d 560	88
1941	Fabling v. Jones· Dissent†	114 P.2d 1100	40
1939	Grandbouche v. People	89 P.2d 577	39
1939	City & County of Denver v. Sheriff	96 P.2d 836	36
1939	McKay v. Public Utilities Commission	91 P.2d 965	35
1940	City & County of Denver v. Lewin	105 P.2d 854	32
1941	Hershorn v. People	113 P.2d 680	31
1940	City & County of Denver v. Lyttle· Dissent†	103 P.2d 1	28
1939	Wharton v. People	90 P.2d 615	28
1940	Denver Joint Stock Land Bank v. Board of County Commissioners	98 P.2d 283	27
1939	O'Connor v. Boulder Colorado Sanitarium Ass'n	96 P.2d 835	27
1939	Averch v. Averch	90 P.2d 962	27
1940	Dikeou v. Food Distributors Ass'n	108 P.2d 529	22
1940	People Ex Rel. Stokes v. Newton	101 P.2d 21	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 Otto Bock on?: Otto Bock was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).