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 1921 / Served to 1949

John F. Tyler

Justice, California Court of Appeal

John F. Tyler was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1949 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tyler authored 497 published opinions for the court (1921–1939), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: New York Life Insurance v. Bank of Italy (63 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. 44 of these were attributed to Tyler 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
1923	New York Life Insurance v. Bank of Italy	214 P. 61	63
1924	Sullivan v. Helbing	226 P. 803	46
1934	Dixon v. Eckenroth· Dissent†	140 Cal. App. 367	45
1935	Sim v. Weeks· Dissent†	7 Cal. App. 2d 28	43
1925	People v. Booth	236 P. 987	43
1938	San Francisco Presbyterian Orphanage & Farm v. Hanson	24 Cal. App. 2d 287	40
1931	Couchman v. Snelling	295 P. 845	40
1924	Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Crockett Land & Cattle Co.	233 P. 370	39
1928	In Re Estate of Major	264 P. 542	37
1924	Hurley v. Sykes	231 P. 748	35
1925	Firpo v. Murphy	236 P. 968	34
1930	People v. Hall	287 P. 533	32
1928	Olson v. Olson	272 P. 1113	31
1925	Maryland Casualty Co. v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.	236 P. 210	28
1928	People v. Ruiz	263 P. 836	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 500 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 F. Tyler on?: John F. Tyler was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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28 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).