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

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1975 / Served to 1991

Allen Broussard

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California

Allen Broussard was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–1996
Tenure: 1975–1991 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of California	–	–
1981	Supreme Court of California	–	–
1981	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Education

Bayamon Central University
University of California-Berkeley

Judicial Record

In our data, Broussard authored 121 published opinions for the court (1981–1991), plus 54 dissents and 71 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Dillon (1,034 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. 131 of these were attributed to Broussard 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
1983	People v. Dillon· Concurrence†	668 P.2d 697	1,034
1987	Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission· Dissent†	743 P.2d 1323	1,025
1988	Foley v. Interactive Data Corp.· Concurrence†	765 P.2d 373	948
1990	Lucido v. Superior Court· Dissent†	795 P.2d 1223	733
1987	Maria P. v. Riles	743 P.2d 932	599
1991	People v. Wharton· Dissent†	809 P.2d 290	574
1991	People v. Cooper· Dissent†	809 P.2d 865	549
1990	People v. Gonzalez· Dissent†	800 P.2d 1159	513
1987	People v. Miranda· Dissent†	744 P.2d 1127	490
1983	Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp.	673 P.2d 660	477
1983	Carlos v. Superior Court	672 P.2d 862	473
1991	Harris v. Capital Growth Investors XIV· Dissent†	805 P.2d 873	457
1989	Thing v. La Chusa· Dissent†	771 P.2d 814	440
1989	People v. Lang· Concurrence†	782 P.2d 627	436
1987	People v. Ghent· Concurrence†	739 P.2d 1250	434

Showing the 15 most-cited of 246 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Allen Broussard on?: Allen Broussard was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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