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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1984 / Served to 1995

James F. Perley

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

James F. Perley was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1995 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1988	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Perley authored 60 published opinions for the court (1988–1995), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Osborn v. Irwin Memorial Blood Bank (100 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. 5 of these were attributed to Perley 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
1992	Osborn v. Irwin Memorial Blood Bank	5 Cal. App. 4th 234	100
1991	Sinai Memorial Chapel v. Dudler	231 Cal. App. 3d 190	52
1995	Steven W. v. Matthew S.	33 Cal. App. 4th 1108	51
1992	Walbrook Insurance v. Liberty Mutual Insurance	5 Cal. App. 4th 1445	49
1989	Storage Services v. Oosterbaan	214 Cal. App. 3d 498	45
1994	Vianna v. Doctors' Management Co.	27 Cal. App. 4th 1186	37
1989	Beresford Neighborhood Ass'n v. City of San Mateo	207 Cal. App. 3d 1180	34
1993	Wilton v. Mountain Wood Homeowners Assn., Inc.	18 Cal. App. 4th 565	31
1994	Bloom v. McGurk	26 Cal. App. 4th 1307	27
1990	Bussey v. Affleck	225 Cal. App. 3d 1162	26
1991	People v. Jackson· Dissent†	235 Cal. App. 3d 1670	23
1993	Farrar v. Franchise Tax Board	15 Cal. App. 4th 10	20
1992	In Re Marriage of Winter	7 Cal. App. 4th 1926	20
1995	Schmidt v. Retirement Board	37 Cal. App. 4th 1204	18
1990	Seubert v. McKesson Corp.	223 Cal. App. 3d 1514	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 61 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 James F. Perley on?: James F. Perley was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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11 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).