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 1941 / Served to 1966

Clement L. Shinn

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Clement L. Shinn was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1941–1966 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shinn authored 1,151 published opinions for the court (1937–1970), plus 15 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: Sime v. Malouf (100 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. 344 of these were attributed to Shinn 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	Sime v. Malouf	95 Cal. App. 2d 82	100
1954	People v. Antista	129 Cal. App. 2d 47	75
1954	Augustine v. Trucco	268 P.2d 780	75
1949	Neal v. Bank of America	93 Cal. App. 2d 678	75
1942	Cox v. Tyrone Power Enterprises Inc.· Concurrence†	49 Cal. App. 2d 383	75
1944	People v. Hatchett	63 Cal. App. 2d 144	71
1956	Pleasant Valley Lima Bean Growers & Warehouse Ass'n v. Cal-Farm Insurance	142 Cal. App. 2d 126	70
1946	Nutter v. City of Santa Monica	74 Cal. App. 2d 292	70
1950	Ellis v. Klaff	216 P.2d 15	65
1949	City of Los Angeles v. Los Angeles Building & Construction Trades Council	94 Cal. App. 2d 36	65
1952	Baratti v. Baratti· Dissent†	109 Cal. App. 2d 917	63
1943	People v. Rodriguez	58 Cal. App. 2d 415	62
1948	People v. Burns· Concurrence†	88 Cal. App. 2d 867	61
1959	People v. Scott	176 Cal. App. 2d 458	57
1957	Lasry v. Lederman	147 Cal. App. 2d 480	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,211 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 Clement L. Shinn on?: Clement L. Shinn was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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25 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).