How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

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

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1998 / Active

Darryl C. Casanueva

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Darryl C. Casanueva is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Casanueva authored 737 published opinions for the court (1998–2019), plus 5 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Harris v. State (91 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. 395 of these were attributed to Casanueva 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
2000	Harris v. State	777 So. 2d 994	91
2002	Lucas v. Calhoun	813 So. 2d 971	36
2005	Snow v. Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster	896 So. 2d 787	35
2000	United Services Auto. Ass'n v. Behar	752 So. 2d 663	32
2004	E.B. v. State†	866 So. 2d 200	30
2000	Davis v. State	761 So. 2d 1154	30
2003	Burnett v. State	848 So. 2d 1170	29
2005	Robinson v. State	907 So. 2d 1284	26
2004	American Intern. Group, Inc. v. Cornerstone Bus., Inc.	872 So. 2d 333	26
2008	Estate of Johnson v. Badger Acquisition	983 So. 2d 1175	25
2012	Walle v. State†	99 So. 3d 967	24
2007	Powell v. State	969 So. 2d 1060	24
2000	Arnold v. State	755 So. 2d 796	24
2004	Davis v. State	884 So. 2d 1058	23
2001	Morgan, Colling & Gilbert, PA v. Pope	798 So. 2d 1	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 764 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 Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Darryl C. Casanueva on?: Darryl C. Casanueva is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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28 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).