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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1937 / Served to 1955

Marshall F. McComb

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Marshall F. McComb was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1937–1955 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McComb authored 858 published opinions for the court (1930–1955), plus 37 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Berry v. Chaplin (108 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. 322 of these were attributed to McComb 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
1946	Berry v. Chaplin· Concurrence†	74 Cal. App. 2d 652	108
1944	Kennedy v. Isenberg	63 Cal. App. 2d 214	97
1948	Wirin v. Horrall	85 Cal. App. 2d 497	59
1941	People v. Black· Dissent†	45 Cal. App. 2d 87	52
1947	Southern California Enterprises, Inc. v. D. N. & E. Walter & Co.· Dissent†	78 Cal. App. 2d 750	47
1946	Childers v. Childers· Concurrence†	74 Cal. App. 2d 56	45
1939	McComsey v. Leaf· Dissent†	36 Cal. App. 2d 132	45
1953	Comunale v. Traders & General Insurance	116 Cal. App. 2d 198	42
1951	In Re Keddy	233 P.2d 159	41
1941	Shields v. Oxnard Harbor District	46 Cal. App. 2d 477	41
1937	Hays v. Temple	23 Cal. App. 2d 690	40
1954	Irvin v. Padelford	127 Cal. App. 2d 135	39
1940	Estate of McNutt· Dissent†	36 Cal. App. 2d 542	39
1941	Clauser v. Taylor	44 Cal. App. 2d 453	37
1942	Lawrence v. City of Los Angeles	53 Cal. App. 2d 6	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 911 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 Marshall F. McComb on?: Marshall F. McComb was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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18 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).