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California Court of Appeal / Joined 1961 / Served to 1969

Byrl R. Salsman

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Byrl R. Salsman was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1961–1969 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Salsman authored 204 published opinions for the court (1961–1969), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Toole v. Richardson-Merrell Inc. (165 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. 42 of these were attributed to Salsman 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
1967	Toole v. Richardson-Merrell Inc.	251 Cal. App. 2d 689	165
1964	Herrero v. Atkinson	227 Cal. App. 2d 69	119
1964	Calhoun v. Hildebrandt	230 Cal. App. 2d 70	57
1965	Eichler Homes, Inc. v. Underwriters at Lloyd's, London	238 Cal. App. 2d 532	55
1965	Agostini v. Strycula	231 Cal. App. 2d 804	49
1967	Henninger v. Southern Pacific Co.	250 Cal. App. 2d 872	40
1967	Stephens v. Berry	249 Cal. App. 2d 474	40
1966	Belli v. Roberts Brothers Furs	240 Cal. App. 2d 284	38
1969	Schmidt v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance	268 Cal. App. 2d 735	34
1968	Carroll v. Hanover Insurance Co.	266 Cal. App. 2d 47	33
1965	People v. Currier· Dissent†	232 Cal. App. 2d 103	31
1966	Monarch Cablevision, Inc. v. City Council	239 Cal. App. 2d 206	29
1965	Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Kowalski	233 Cal. App. 2d 607	29
1967	People v. Sievers	255 Cal. App. 2d 34	26
1964	People v. Young	224 Cal. App. 2d 420	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 210 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 Byrl R. Salsman on?: Byrl R. Salsman was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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8 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).