Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras / Joined 2001 / Served to 2014

John E. Martin

Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras

John E. Martin was a Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras, who joined the court in 2001. He previously served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1968
Tenure: 2001–2014 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–
2001	Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras	–	–
2005	Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras	–	–
2012	Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras	–	–
2014	Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras	–	–

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Marquette University
University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Martin authored 653 published opinions for the court (1939–1961), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Pines v. Perssion (94 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. 87 of these were attributed to Martin 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
1961	Pines v. Perssion	14 Wis. 2d 590	94
1961	Schwenn v. Loraine Hotel Co.	14 Wis. 2d 601	55
1955	Fullerton Lumber Co. v. Torborg	270 Wis. 133	54
1955	Kuhl Motor Co. v. Ford Motor Co.	270 Wis. 488	53
1955	Meyer v. Carman	271 Wis. 329	49
1943	Lefevre v. State	8 N.W.2d 288	48
1961	State Ex Rel. Wasilewski v. Board of School Directors of Milwaukee· Concurrence†	14 Wis. 2d 243	44
1956	Smith v. City of Brookfield	272 Wis. 1	41
1951	Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District v. Committee on Water Pollution	260 Wis. 229	41
1959	Meiser v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	8 Wis. 2d 233	38
1949	Maitland v. Twin City Aviation Corp.	37 N.W.2d 74	36
1958	Nelsen v. Farmers Mutual Automobile Insurance	4 Wis. 2d 36	35
1960	State v. Chobot	12 Wis. 2d 110	33
1953	State Ex Rel. Thomson v. Giessel	265 Wis. 185	33
1959	Powless v. Milwaukee County	6 Wis. 2d 78	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 661 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

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Sources

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