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 1961 / Served to 1964

Louis H. Burke

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Louis H. Burke was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1961–1964 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Burke authored 173 published opinions for the court (1961–1999). Most cited: People v. Morrison (83 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. 34 of these were attributed to Burke 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
1964	People v. Morrison	228 Cal. App. 2d 707	83
1962	Abstract Investment Co. v. Hutchinson	204 Cal. App. 2d 242	60
1963	People v. Swann	213 Cal. App. 2d 447	53
1962	Hendricks v. Meritplan Insurance	205 Cal. App. 2d 133	49
1963	People v. Aguilar	223 Cal. App. 2d 119	43
1999	People v. Pelayo	81 Cal. Rptr. 2d 373	42
1962	People v. Tatum	209 Cal. App. 2d 179	40
1964	People v. Martin	225 Cal. App. 2d 91	34
1962	Henry v. City of Los Angeles	201 Cal. App. 2d 299	33
1962	Barclay Kitchen, Inc. v. California Bank	208 Cal. App. 2d 347	32
1964	Mercer v. Lemmens	230 Cal. App. 2d 167	31
1963	People v. Stuyvesant Insurance	216 Cal. App. 2d 380	30
1964	Harris v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board	228 Cal. App. 2d 1	28
1962	Sosin v. Richardson	210 Cal. App. 2d 258	27
1962	Industrial Indemnity Co. v. General Insurance Co. of America	210 Cal. App. 2d 352	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 173 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 Louis H. Burke on?: Louis H. Burke was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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3 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).