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 1982 / Served to 1992

George E. Danielson

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

George E. Danielson was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1992 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Danielson authored 110 published opinions for the court (1982–1992), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Imperial Casualty & Indemnity Co. v. Sogomonian (88 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. 22 of these were attributed to Danielson 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
1988	Imperial Casualty & Indemnity Co. v. Sogomonian· Dissent†	198 Cal. App. 3d 169	88
1990	Howard v. Drapkin· Concurrence†	222 Cal. App. 3d 843	75
1985	Polster, Inc. v. Swing	164 Cal. App. 3d 427	67
1992	Levy v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.	4 Cal. App. 4th 807	55
1985	Aldrich v. San Fernando Valley Lumber Co.	170 Cal. App. 3d 725	53
1988	Hennessey's Tavern, Inc. v. American Air Filter Co.†	204 Cal. App. 3d 1351	48
1991	Rao v. Campo	233 Cal. App. 3d 1557	43
1987	Carden v. Getzoff· Concurrence†	190 Cal. App. 3d 907	41
1986	Ford v. Superior Court	188 Cal. App. 3d 737	40
1988	City of Alhambra v. Superior Court· Concurrence†	205 Cal. App. 3d 1118	38
1986	Harding v. Collazo	177 Cal. App. 3d 1044	37
1983	People v. Carroll	140 Cal. App. 3d 135	37
1988	Kaneko Ford Design v. Citipark, Inc.	202 Cal. App. 3d 1220	32
1991	People v. Sergio R.	228 Cal. App. 3d 588	31
1985	People Ex Rel. Franchise Tax Board v. Superior Court	164 Cal. App. 3d 526	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 116 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 George E. Danielson on?: George E. Danielson was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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10 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).