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California Court of Appeal / Joined 1999 / Served to 2017

Dennis M. Perluss

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Dennis M. Perluss was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2017 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2001	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2003	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2017	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Perluss authored 217 published opinions for the court (1966–2017), plus 8 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Albarran (389 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. 90 of these were attributed to Perluss 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
2007	People v. Albarran· Dissent†	57 Cal. Rptr. 3d 92	389
2008	Wolf v. Walt Disney Pictures and Television	76 Cal. Rptr. 3d 585	278
2007	Bridget A. v. Superior Court†	148 Cal. App. 4th 285	205
2015	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Shahida R.†	241 Cal. App. 4th 1376	144
2002	Kajima Engineering & Construction, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles	116 Cal. Rptr. 2d 187	141
2011	Pannu v. Land Rover North America, Inc.†	191 Cal. App. 4th 1298	139
2007	Gonzalez v. Munoz	67 Cal. Rptr. 3d 317	130
2009	Roman v. Superior Court	172 Cal. App. 4th 1462	124
2015	People v. Beatrice Bros.†	236 Cal. App. 4th 24	119
2017	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Lydia O.†	8 Cal. App. 5th 636	117
2007	Zhou v. Unisource Worldwide, Inc.	69 Cal. Rptr. 3d 273	117
2006	People v. Mesa	50 Cal. Rptr. 3d 875	113
2005	Caliber Bodyworks, Inc. v. Superior Court	36 Cal. Rptr. 3d 31	106
2006	People v. Walker	43 Cal. Rptr. 3d 257	105
2009	In Re CC	172 Cal. App. 4th 1481	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 228 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 Dennis M. Perluss on?: Dennis M. Perluss was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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18 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).