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California Court of Appeal / Joined 1970 / Served to 1991

Campbell M. Lucas

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Campbell M. Lucas was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1991 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1984	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1988	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lucas authored 67 published opinions for the court (1928–1991). Most cited: Harbor Insurance v. Central National Insurance (50 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. 4 of these were attributed to Lucas 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
1985	Harbor Insurance v. Central National Insurance	165 Cal. App. 3d 1029	50
1987	Little v. CFS Service Corp.	188 Cal. App. 3d 1354	42
1990	Long Beach Unified Sch. Dist. v. STATE OF CALIF.	225 Cal. App. 3d 155	41
1930	Rovegno v. San Jose Knights of Columbus Hall Ass'n	291 P. 848	40
1985	Lavine v. Hospital of the Good Samaritan	169 Cal. App. 3d 1019	38
1986	Yamaha Motor Corp. v. Superior Court	185 Cal. App. 3d 1232	37
1985	Forman v. Knapp Press	173 Cal. App. 3d 200	32
1987	People v. Garrett	195 Cal. App. 3d 795	29
1929	Crabbe v. Rhoades	282 P. 10	28
1985	Highland Development Co. v. City of Los Angeles	170 Cal. App. 3d 169	23
1929	Woodhead Lumber Co. v. E. G. Niemann Investments, Inc.	278 P. 913	23
1928	Jellen v. O'Brien	264 P. 1115	23
1928	Wagnitz v. Scharetg	265 P. 318	22
1989	People v. Lloyd	216 Cal. App. 3d 1425	19
1989	In Re Eduardo A.	209 Cal. App. 3d 1038	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 67 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 Campbell M. Lucas on?: Campbell M. Lucas was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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20 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).