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 1923 / Served to 1937

Frederick Houser

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Frederick Houser was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1923–1937 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Houser authored 593 published opinions for the court (1923–1937), plus 21 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Vernon (56 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. 69 of these were attributed to Houser 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
1935	People v. Vernon	9 Cal. App. 2d 138	56
1937	Price v. McComish	22 Cal. App. 2d 92	41
1937	People v. Purcell	22 Cal. App. 2d 126	40
1926	Vieux v. Vieux	251 P. 640	40
1929	People v. Whipple	279 P. 1008	38
1934	Kline v. Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank†	138 Cal. App. 514	36
1925	People v. Frank	236 P. 189	35
1937	People v. Asavis	22 Cal. App. 2d 492	34
1925	People v. Clark	233 P. 980	32
1932	People v. Nolan	14 P.2d 880	31
1932	City of Los Angeles v. Deacon· Concurrence	7 P.2d 378	31
1931	People v. McClain	1 P.2d 1085	30
1927	Chaplin v. Superior Court	253 P. 954	30
1924	People v. Camperlingo	231 P. 601	30
1932	People v. O'Brien	9 P.2d 902	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 625 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 Frederick Houser on?: Frederick Houser was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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14 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).