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Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1961 / Served to 1970

Robert H. McWilliams Jr.

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Robert H. McWilliams Jr. was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2013
Tenure: 1961–1970 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Denver
University of Colorado Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, McWilliams authored 530 published opinions for the court (1961–1970), plus 54 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Hoen v. District Court (209 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. 321 of these were attributed to McWilliams 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
1966	Hoen v. District Court	412 P.2d 428	209
1968	People v. District Court for County of Jefferson· Dissent†	439 P.2d 741	114
1968	Western Fire Insurance v. First Presbyterian Church	437 P.2d 52	90
1966	Robles v. People· Dissent†	417 P.2d 232	88
1970	STANDARD METALS CORPORATION v. Ball	474 P.2d 622	85
1962	Oaks v. People· Concurrence†	371 P.2d 443	77
1964	Lewis v. Buckskin Joe's, Inc.· Dissent†	396 P.2d 933	70
1968	Maisel v. People	442 P.2d 399	52
1970	Sullivan v. Davis	474 P.2d 218	47
1966	Daniels v. People	411 P.2d 316	45
1962	Four-County Metropolitan Capital Improvement District v. Board of County Commissioners· Dissent†	369 P.2d 67	45
1965	Stillings v. Davis	406 P.2d 337	42
1961	Duran v. People	360 P.2d 132	42
1967	Big Sandy School District No. 100-J v. Carroll	433 P.2d 325	40
1963	Corbett v. People	387 P.2d 409	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 601 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 Robert H. McWilliams Jr. on?: Robert H. McWilliams Jr. was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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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).