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California Court of Appeal / Joined 1942 / Served to 1952

Annette Abbott Adams

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Annette Abbott Adams was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1956
Tenure: 1942–1952 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Adams authored 336 published opinions for the court (1942–1952), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Gibson v. De La Salle Institute (51 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. 87 of these were attributed to Adams 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
1944	Gibson v. De La Salle Institute	66 Cal. App. 2d 609	51
1945	People v. Keith Railway Equipment Co.	70 Cal. App. 2d 339	37
1942	People v. Gustafson	53 Cal. App. 2d 230	34
1942	Seidell v. Anglo-California Trust Co.· Dissent†	55 Cal. App. 2d 913	33
1951	Pimentel v. Houk	101 Cal. App. 2d 884	29
1946	Munfrey v. Cleary	75 Cal. App. 2d 779	29
1945	Koenig v. Johnson	71 Cal. App. 2d 739	29
1943	Petersen v. Murphy	59 Cal. App. 2d 528	29
1942	Vilardo v. County of Sacramento	54 Cal. App. 2d 413	29
1945	Juri v. Juri	69 Cal. App. 2d 773	28
1951	People v. Cayer	102 Cal. App. 2d 643	27
1942	People v. Bastio	55 Cal. App. 2d 615	27
1950	People v. McNichol	100 Cal. App. 2d 554	26
1945	Rosenblatt v. California State Board of Pharmacy· Dissent†	69 Cal. App. 2d 69	26
1944	Beckhan v. City of Stockton	64 Cal. App. 2d 487	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 342 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 Annette Abbott Adams on?: Annette Abbott Adams was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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10 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).