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Supreme Court of California / Joined 1903 / Served to 1921

Frank M. Angellotti

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Frank M. Angellotti was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1903. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1861 · age 165
Tenure: 1903–1921 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1903	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Angellotti authored 724 published opinions for the court (1900–1921), plus 40 dissents and 75 concurrences. Most cited: Seymour v. Oelrichs (231 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. 23 of these were attributed to Angellotti 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
1909	Seymour v. Oelrichs	106 P. 88	231
1903	Katz v. Walkinshaw· Concurrence	70 P. 663	160
1913	Pacific Telephone Etc. Co. v. Eshleman· Dissent	137 P. 1119	150
1916	Western Metal Supply Co. v. Pillsbury· Concurrence	156 P. 491	144
1908	J. F. Parkinson Co. v. Building Trades Council· Concurrence	98 P. 1027	122
1915	People v. Witt	148 P. 928	106
1919	Varcoe v. Lee· Concurrence	181 P. 223	101
1906	People v. Maughs· Concurrence	86 P. 187	101
1905	People v. Cook· Dissent	83 P. 43	101
1920	McConnell v. Doolittle	193 P. 581	99
1904	People v. Suesser	75 P. 1093	99
1917	Millar v. Millar	167 P. 394	97
1904	People v. Davis	77 P. 651	94
1910	People v. Loper· Dissent	112 P. 720	93
1911	Stein v. United R.R. of S.F.· Concurrence	113 P. 663	89

Showing the 15 most-cited of 842 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Frank M. Angellotti on?: Frank M. Angellotti was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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18 years on the Supreme Court of California. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).