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 1944 / Served to 1953

Cj Goodell

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Cj Goodell was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1944–1953 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goodell authored 232 published opinions for the court (1929–1953), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Fleckner v. Dionne (48 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. 54 of these were attributed to Goodell 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	Fleckner v. Dionne	94 Cal. App. 2d 246	48
1945	People v. Holman	72 Cal. App. 2d 75	45
1948	Leoni v. Delany· Dissent†	83 Cal. App. 2d 303	36
1948	People v. Burns	84 Cal. App. 2d 18	30
1952	Lloyd v. Southern Pacific Co.	111 Cal. App. 2d 626	26
1946	People v. Gelardi	77 Cal. App. 2d 467	25
1950	People v. Johnson	99 Cal. App. 2d 559	24
1949	People v. Anderson	90 Cal. App. 2d 326	24
1949	Kouff v. Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyard, Inc.	90 Cal. App. 2d 322	24
1945	People v. Beltowski	71 Cal. App. 2d 18	24
1949	Roller v. California Pacific Title Insurance Co.	92 Cal. App. 2d 149	23
1947	Burch v. Valley Motor Lines, Inc.	78 Cal. App. 2d 834	23
1946	Krobitzsch v. Middleton	72 Cal. App. 2d 804	23
1931	Klebora v. Klebora	5 P.2d 965	23
1950	Puchta v. Rothman	221 P.2d 744	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 236 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 Cj Goodell on?: Cj Goodell was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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9 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).