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 1924 / Served to 1946

Benjamin K. Knight

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Benjamin K. Knight was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1924. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1924–1946 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1924	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Knight authored 691 published opinions for the court (1920–1946), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Krupa (81 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. 95 of these were attributed to Knight 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	People v. Krupa· Dissent†	64 Cal. App. 2d 592	81
1942	Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.· Dissent†	55 Cal. App. 2d 720	77
1941	Cousins Investment Co. v. Hastings Clothing Co.	45 Cal. App. 2d 141	69
1938	Estate of Bourn	25 Cal. App. 2d 590	64
1934	People v. Tinnin	28 P.2d 951	53
1944	Conroy v. Perez	64 Cal. App. 2d 217	50
1930	People v. Sampsell	286 P. 434	49
1931	San Francisco Iron & Metal Co. v. American Milling & Industrial Co.	1 P.2d 1008	47
1944	Aebli v. Board of Education· Concurrence†	62 Cal. App. 2d 706	46
1934	Dixon v. Eckenroth†	140 Cal. App. 367	45
1939	People v. Russell	34 Cal. App. 2d 665	43
1939	People v. Cabaltero	31 Cal. App. 2d 52	42
1926	People v. Egan	246 P. 337	42
1936	Richter v. Neilson	11 Cal. App. 2d 503	40
1928	Hawber v. Raley	268 P. 943	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 703 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 Benjamin K. Knight on?: Benjamin K. Knight was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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22 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).