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 1925 / Served to 1928

D. A'rcy Cashin

Justice, California Court of Appeal

D. A'rcy Cashin was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1925–1928 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cashin authored 137 published opinions for the court (1925–1937), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: May v. Farrell (66 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. 1 of these was attributed to Cashin 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
1928	May v. Farrell	271 P. 789	66
1927	Kruse v. White Brothers	253 P. 178	46
1926	Curran v. Earle C. Anthony, Inc.	247 P. 236	34
1925	Little v. Union Oil Co.	238 P. 1066	33
1927	Giorgetti v. Wollaston	257 P. 109	30
1928	MacPherson v. West Coast Transit Co.	271 P. 509	29
1928	Ley v. Bishopp	263 P. 369	29
1937	People v. Buyle	22 Cal. App. 2d 143	26
1927	San Jose Hospital v. Etherton	258 P. 611	24
1932	In Re Hallinan· Concurrence	14 P.2d 797	23
1925	Levy v. Superior Court	239 P. 1100	20
1927	Morris v. Morris	258 P. 616	18
1927	People v. Gilbert	260 P. 558	17
1927	Bennett v. Northwestern National Insurance	257 P. 586	17
1926	Cullinan v. Mercantile Trust Co.	252 P. 647	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 D. A'rcy Cashin on?: D. A'rcy Cashin was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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3 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).