Superior Court of California, County of San Diego / Joined 1987 / Served to 2010

Charles R. Hayes

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego

Charles R. Hayes was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego (111 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1987. He previously served on the South Dakota Supreme Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1899 · age 127
Tenure: 1987–2010 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	South Dakota Supreme Court	–	–
1987	Superior Court of California, County of San Diego	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hayes authored 37 published opinions for the court (1946–1951), plus 7 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Simons v. Kidd (37 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. 9 of these were attributed to Hayes 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
1949	Simons v. Kidd· Dissent	38 N.W.2d 883	37
1949	Lien v. Northwestern Engineering Co.· Dissent	39 N.W.2d 483	30
1947	Robertson v. Hennrich	29 N.W.2d 329	23
1949	State v. Jerke	38 N.W.2d 874	21
1950	Newton v. Erickson· Concurrence†	41 N.W.2d 545	20
1950	Schumacher v. R-B Freight Lines, Inc.	45 N.W.2d 458	15
1948	Moncur v. Jones	31 N.W.2d 759	15
1949	Gulbrandson v. Town of Midland· Dissent	36 N.W.2d 655	13
1948	Tidball v. Miller	32 N.W.2d 683	12
1947	Behringer v. Muchow	30 N.W.2d 5	12
1950	Cooper v. Vinatieri	43 N.W.2d 747	11
1950	Western Surety Co. v. Addy	42 N.W.2d 660	10
1950	Luedke v. Carlson	41 N.W.2d 552	9
1947	In Re National Benefit Ass'n· Concurrence	29 N.W.2d 81	9
1946	City of Sioux Falls v. Famestad	21 N.W.2d 693	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 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 Superior Court of California, County of San Diego reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Charles R. Hayes on?: Charles R. Hayes was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

Sources

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22 years on the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).