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 1926 / Served to 1941

John Francis Pullen

Justice, California Court of Appeal

John Francis Pullen was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1926. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1941
Tenure: 1926–1941 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1926	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pullen authored 389 published opinions for the court (1926–1941). Most cited: Armstrong v. Wallace (50 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. 74 of these were attributed to Pullen 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
1935	Armstrong v. Wallace	8 Cal. App. 2d 429	50
1934	Ryder v. Ryder	2 Cal. App. 2d 426	40
1939	Rosenberg v. J. C. Penney Co.	30 Cal. App. 2d 609	39
1941	Griffin v. County of Colusa	44 Cal. App. 2d 915	37
1936	Linstead v. Superior Court	17 Cal. App. 2d 9	35
1937	Stockburger v. Riley	21 Cal. App. 2d 165	33
1936	Kegley v. Kegley	16 Cal. App. 2d 216	33
1936	People v. Salas	17 Cal. App. 2d 75	31
1934	Bunch v. Kin	2 Cal. App. 2d 81	30
1933	Burbank v. McIntyre	27 P.2d 400	27
1933	Hauser v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.	23 P.2d 1068	27
1938	Smith v. Schumacker	30 Cal. App. 2d 251	26
1937	Shaver v. Canfield	21 Cal. App. 2d 734	26
1940	People v. Alexander	41 Cal. App. 2d 275	24
1936	Cooper v. County of Butte	17 Cal. App. 2d 43	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 389 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 Francis Pullen on?: John Francis Pullen was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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15 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).