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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1969 / Served to 1981

John R. Allport

Justice, California Court of Appeal

John R. Allport was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1981 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Allport authored 87 published opinions for the court (1969–1981), plus 13 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Yoder (61 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. 24 of these were attributed to Allport 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
1979	People v. Yoder	100 Cal. App. 3d 333	61
1975	Wisniewski v. Clary· Concurrence†	46 Cal. App. 3d 499	61
1974	People v. Herdan· Dissent†	42 Cal. App. 3d 300	45
1978	Gonzales v. Interinsurance Exchange of Automobile Club	84 Cal. App. 3d 58	37
1971	Clemens v. Regents of University of California	20 Cal. App. 3d 356	36
1971	Walker v. Stauffer Chemical Corp.	19 Cal. App. 3d 669	36
1979	Huston v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board	95 Cal. App. 3d 856	32
1976	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Murray Plumbing & Heating Corp.	65 Cal. App. 3d 66	31
1975	Geffen v. Moss	53 Cal. App. 3d 215	30
1977	Diaz v. United California Bank	71 Cal. App. 3d 161	27
1978	Henderson v. Board of Education	78 Cal. App. 3d 875	23
1978	O'SULLIVAN v. Salvation Army	85 Cal. App. 3d 58	22
1976	Russell v. Soldinger	59 Cal. App. 3d 633	22
1976	Sylla v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.	54 Cal. App. 3d 895	22
1973	Sanders v. Superior Court	34 Cal. App. 3d 270	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 104 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 John R. Allport on?: John R. Allport was a 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).