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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2002 / Active

John Shepard, Jr. Wiley

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

John Shepard, Jr. Wiley is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: Since 2002 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wiley authored 15 published opinions for the court (2007–2019). Most cited: People v. Bipialaka (69 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. 15 of these were attributed to Wiley 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
2019	People v. Bipialaka†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 177	69
2008	People v. Margarejo†	75 Cal. Rptr. 3d 465	48
2008	People v. Jefferson†	70 Cal. Rptr. 3d 451	23
2019	Cohen v. Kabbalah Ctr. Int'l, Inc.†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 774	22
2018	Jaime G. v. H.L.†	236 Cal. Rptr. 3d 209	21
2019	Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.†	250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 677	14
2007	Pagarigan v. Aetna U.S. Healthcare of California, Inc.†	69 Cal. Rptr. 3d 627	12
2019	Bravo v. Radc Enters., Inc.†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 399	5
2019	People v. Chamagua†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 523	5
2019	People v. Williams†	250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 508	4
2019	Baker-Smith v. Skolnick†	249 Cal. Rptr. 3d 514	3
2019	Sands v. Walnut Gardens Condo. Ass'n Inc.†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 21	2
2008	People v. Reyes†	70 Cal. Rptr. 3d 903	1
2019	Palm Fin. Corp. v. Parallel Media LLC†	251 Cal. Rptr. 3d 14	0
2019	Lomeli v. State Dep't of Health Care Servs.†	249 Cal. Rptr. 3d 115	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 is John Shepard, Jr. Wiley on?: John Shepard, Jr. Wiley is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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23 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).