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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1921 / Served to 1922

Charles A. Shurtleff

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Charles A. Shurtleff was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1857 · age 169
Tenure: 1921–1922 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shurtleff authored 16 published opinions for the court (1921–1922). Most cited: Erkenbrecher v. Grant (65 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1921	Erkenbrecher v. Grant	200 P. 641	65
1921	Goldstein v. Healy	201 P. 462	61
1922	Duffill v. Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank	206 P. 42	49
1921	Brecheen v. Riley	200 P. 1042	44
1922	People v. Ellis	206 P. 983	33
1922	Popp v. Exchange Bank	208 P. 113	31
1922	People v. Martin	205 P. 121	29
1922	Monsch v. Pellissier	204 P. 224	18
1921	Mahony v. Standard Gas Engine Co.	202 P. 146	16
1922	Spaulding v. Desmond	207 P. 896	15
1922	Jansson v. National Steamship Co.	208 P. 90	13
1921	Gen. Accident Assurance Corp. v. Indus. Accident Comm'n	200 P. 419	13
1921	Platner v. Vincent	202 P. 655	12
1922	Budd v. Morgan	203 P. 754	10
1922	Blackwood v. McCallum	203 P. 758	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Charles A. Shurtleff on?: Charles A. Shurtleff was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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1 year on the Supreme Court of California. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).