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 1983 / Served to 1985

Edward P. Panelli

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Edward P. Panelli was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1985 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Panelli authored 23 published opinions for the court (1981–1985), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Arwood (39 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. 4 of these were attributed to Panelli 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
1985	People v. Arwood	165 Cal. App. 3d 167	39
1983	People v. Man J.	149 Cal. App. 3d 475	38
1984	Dunn v. Superior Court	159 Cal. App. 3d 1110	32
1985	Carlson v. Assessment Appeals Board I· Concurrence†	167 Cal. App. 3d 1004	24
1985	Maruman Integrated Circuits, Inc. v. Consortium Co.	166 Cal. App. 3d 443	23
1984	People v. Neal	159 Cal. App. 3d 69	22
1984	People v. Keith T.	156 Cal. App. 3d 983	19
1985	Kroff v. Larson	167 Cal. App. 3d 857	18
1985	Streicher v. Tommy's Electric Co.	164 Cal. App. 3d 876	17
1985	Henslee v. Department of Motor Vehicles	168 Cal. App. 3d 445	15
1984	Olden v. Hatchell	154 Cal. App. 3d 1032	15
1981	People v. Lybrand	115 Cal. App. 3d 1	13
1985	People v. Sanchez	174 Cal. App. 3d 343	11
1985	Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Price	163 Cal. App. 3d 745	10
1984	People v. Dillard	154 Cal. App. 3d 261	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 Edward P. Panelli on?: Edward P. Panelli was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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2 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).