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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Colorado Supreme Court / Joined 1901 / Served to 1910

Robert W. Steele

Justice, Colorado Supreme Court

Robert W. Steele was a Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1901. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1857–1910
Tenure: 1901–1910 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1901	Colorado Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Steele authored 197 published opinions for the court (1901–1910), plus 12 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: City & County of Denver v. Hallett (56 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. 208 of these were attributed to Steele 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
1905	City & County of Denver v. Hallett†	34 Colo. 393	56
1905	Denver Public Warehouse Co. v. Holloway	34 Colo. 432	45
1903	Denver Consolidated Electric Co. v. Lawrence†	31 Colo. 301	42
1905	People ex rel. Attorney General v. Tool· Dissent†	35 Colo. 225	39
1901	People ex rel. Alexander v. District Court†	29 Colo. 182	30
1910	Garnet Ditch & Reservoir Co. v. Sampson†	48 Colo. 285	26
1901	Grand Valley Irrigation Co. v. Lesher†	28 Colo. 273	26
1906	People ex rel. Attorney General v. News-Times Publishing Co.· Dissent†	35 Colo. 253	25
1905	In re Moyer· Dissent†	35 Colo. 159	25
1905	City of Denver v. Kennedy· Dissent†	33 Colo. 80	25
1905	People ex rel. Attorney General v. Johnson· Dissent†	34 Colo. 143	24
1903	Keady v. People†	32 Colo. 57	21
1908	Schuler v. Henry†	42 Colo. 367	20
1902	Medano Ditch Co. v. Adams· Dissent†	29 Colo. 317	20
1904	Peckham v. People†	32 Colo. 140	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 210 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 W. Steele on?: Robert W. Steele 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).