How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1987 / Served to 2002

Martin M. Doctoroff

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Martin M. Doctoroff was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2002 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doctoroff authored 124 published opinions for the court (1987–2002), plus 7 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Cloverleaf Car Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (80 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. 123 of these were attributed to Doctoroff 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
1995	Cloverleaf Car Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.†	540 N.W.2d 297	80
1999	People v. Abraham· Concurrence†	599 N.W.2d 736	78
1998	Smith v. Stolberg†	586 N.W.2d 103	77
1992	Bonner v. Chicago Title Insurance†	487 N.W.2d 807	76
1992	In Re Forfeiture of $1,159,420· Dissent†	486 N.W.2d 326	67
1988	Formall, Inc. v. Community National Bank†	421 N.W.2d 289	62
1989	Feaheny v. Caldwell	437 N.W.2d 358	57
1989	Joy Management Co. v. City of Detroit†	440 N.W.2d 654	50
1998	Masb-Seg property/casualty Pool, Inc v. Metalux†	586 N.W.2d 549	49
1998	In re S R†	229 Mich. App. 310	48
2001	People v. Watkins†	634 N.W.2d 370	42
1997	People v. Solomon†	560 N.W.2d 651	42
1999	Taylor v. Kurapati· Concurrence†	600 N.W.2d 670	40
1988	Peterfish v. Frantz†	424 N.W.2d 25	40
1991	Bloemsma v. Auto Club Insurance†	476 N.W.2d 487	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 142 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 Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Martin M. Doctoroff on?: Martin M. Doctoroff was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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