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Supreme Court of California / Joined 1906 / Served to 1919

M. C. Sloss

Justice, Supreme Court of California

M. C. Sloss was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1906. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1869 · age 157
Tenure: 1906–1919 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1906	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sloss authored 556 published opinions for the court (1906–1919), plus 9 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. McHugh (170 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. 11 of these were attributed to Sloss 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
1913	Bancroft-Whitney Co. v. McHugh	134 P. 1157	170
1913	People v. O'Bryan	130 P. 1042	161
1915	Western Indemnity Co. v. Pillsbury	151 P. 398	159
1913	Pacific Telephone Etc. Co. v. Eshleman· Concurrence	137 P. 1119	150
1916	Western Metal Supply Co. v. Pillsbury	156 P. 491	144
1907	People v. Kauffman	92 P. 861	135
1908	J. F. Parkinson Co. v. Building Trades Council· Concurrence	98 P. 1027	122
1915	Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. California Development Co.	152 P. 542	102
1909	Miller & Lux v. Madera Canal & Irrigation Co.	99 P. 502	102
1913	Thompson v. Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway Co.	134 P. 709	93
1915	Great Western Power Co. v. Pillsbury	149 P. 35	85
1909	Smith v. Bangham	104 P. 689	82
1908	People v. Siemsen	95 P. 836	80
1906	The Title & Document Restoration Co. v. Kerrigan	88 P. 356	80
1916	North Alaska Salmon Co. v. Pillsbury	162 P. 93	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 599 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was M. C. Sloss on?: M. C. Sloss was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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