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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1953 / Served to 1964

Andrew R. Schottky

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Andrew R. Schottky was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1980
Tenure: 1953–1964 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schottky authored 637 published opinions for the court (1941–1964), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Kirstowsky v. Superior Court (65 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. 114 of these were attributed to Schottky 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
1956	Kirstowsky v. Superior Court	143 Cal. App. 2d 745	65
1956	Mueller v. Mueller	144 Cal. App. 2d 245	50
1963	DiGiorgio Furit Corp. v. American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Oragnizations†	215 Cal. App. 2d 560	49
1954	Risley v. Lenwell	129 Cal. App. 2d 608	46
1963	Di Giorgio Fruit Corp. v. AFL-CIO	215 Cal. App. 2d 560	44
1959	Wyatt v. Tahoe Forest Hospital District	174 Cal. App. 2d 709	39
1961	Smith v. Superior Court	189 Cal. App. 2d 6	35
1948	Estate of Trefren	86 Cal. App. 2d 139	35
1959	People v. Warren	175 Cal. App. 2d 233	34
1953	People v. Freudenberg	121 Cal. App. 2d 564	34
1956	People v. Vice	147 Cal. App. 2d 269	33
1963	People v. Garcia	214 Cal. App. 2d 681	31
1946	Freeman v. Nickerson	77 Cal. App. 2d 40	31
1946	Jegen v. Berger	77 Cal. App. 2d 1	31
1958	Wickoff v. James	159 Cal. App. 2d 664	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 639 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 Andrew R. Schottky on?: Andrew R. Schottky was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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11 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).