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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1977 / Served to 2012

Marcel B. Poché

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Marcel B. Poché was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–2012 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1979	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2002	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Poché authored 31 published opinions for the court (1980–2000), plus 2 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Commerce & Industry Insurance v. Chubb Custom Insurance (25 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. 38 of these were attributed to Poché 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
1999	Commerce & Industry Insurance v. Chubb Custom Insurance†	75 Cal. App. 4th 739	25
1988	Self-Insurers Security Fund v. Esis, Inc.· Concurrence†	204 Cal. App. 3d 1148	20
1999	Alpine Insurance v. Planchon†	72 Cal. App. 4th 1316	17
1998	Empire Waste Management v. Town of Windsor†	67 Cal. App. 4th 714	13
1988	Khan v. Superior Court†	204 Cal. App. 3d 1168	11
1986	People v. Abraham· Concurrence†	185 Cal. App. 3d 1221	6
2000	International Federation of Professional & Tehnial Engineers v. City & County of San Francisco†	79 Cal. App. 4th 1300	3
1980	Bonenfant v. Tabery†	112 Cal. App. 3d 81	3
1988	In re Quinn†	206 Cal. App. 3d 179	2
1988	People v. Tyson· Dissent†	197 Cal. App. 3d 1275	2
1986	Berkeley Federation of Teachers v. Berkeley Unified School District· Concurrence†	178 Cal. App. 3d 775	2
2000	People v. Harvest· Dissent†	84 Cal. App. 4th 631	1
2000	People v. Green†	79 Cal. App. 4th 921	1
1999	People v. Lewis†	74 Cal. App. 4th 662	1
1999	California Pacific Homes, Inc. v. Scottsdale Insurance†	70 Cal. App. 4th 1187	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 38 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 Marcel B. Poché on?: Marcel B. Poché was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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34 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).