How do judges of the California Court of Appeal reach the bench?

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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1906 / Served to 1923

Albert Glenn Burnett

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Albert Glenn Burnett was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1906. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1856–1923
Tenure: 1906–1923 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1906	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Burnett authored 754 published opinions for the court (1907–1923), plus 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Burke (79 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. 28 of these were attributed to Burnett 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
1912	People v. Burke	122 P. 435	79
1921	Meyers v. Bradford	201 P. 471	50
1909	People v. Disperati	105 P. 617	49
1920	Mayborne v. Citizens Trust & Savings Bank	188 P. 1034	48
1919	Randolph v. Hunt	183 P. 358	48
1910	People v. Bond	109 P. 150	46
1908	People v. Perez	98 P. 870	46
1914	People v. Scott	141 P. 945	41
1913	Davidow v. Griswold	137 P. 1111	40
1912	Reed Orchard Co. v. Superior Court	128 P. 9	39
1913	McClure v. Nye	133 P. 1145	34
1910	Skrocki v. Stahl	110 P. 957	34
1923	Rocca v. Steinmetz	214 P. 257	33
1922	Whiteman v. Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District	212 P. 706	33
1914	People v. Bartol	142 P. 510	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 764 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 California Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Albert Glenn Burnett on?: Albert Glenn Burnett was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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16 years on the California Court of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).