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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1975 / Served to 1992

Frances Newell Carr

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Frances Newell Carr was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1923–1992
Tenure: 1975–1992 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1980	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1980	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carr authored 142 published opinions for the court (1978–1991), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Jamie M. (122 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. 13 of these were attributed to Carr 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
1982	In Re Jamie M.	134 Cal. App. 3d 530	122
1985	Allen v. Toten· Dissent†	172 Cal. App. 3d 1079	92
1986	Fuhrman v. California Satellite Systems	179 Cal. App. 3d 408	67
1991	Zellerino v. Brown	235 Cal. App. 3d 1097	65
1991	Live Oak Publishing Co. v. Cohagan	234 Cal. App. 3d 1277	60
1985	Nichols v. Great American Ins. Companies	169 Cal. App. 3d 766	57
1983	Rural Landowners Assn. v. City Council	143 Cal. App. 3d 1013	57
1988	Eddy v. Sharp	199 Cal. App. 3d 858	53
1981	Chambers v. Superior Court	121 Cal. App. 3d 893	48
1980	O'Neal v. Jeremy C.	109 Cal. App. 3d 384	46
1985	Bear Creek Planning Committee v. Title Insurance & Trust Co.	164 Cal. App. 3d 1227	45
1981	Herbert v. Superior Court	117 Cal. App. 3d 661	45
1984	People v. West	154 Cal. App. 3d 100	44
1984	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. American Employer's Insurance	159 Cal. App. 3d 277	43
1983	Atlas Assurance Co. v. McCombs Corp.	146 Cal. App. 3d 135	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 146 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 Frances Newell Carr on?: Frances Newell Carr was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).