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 1945 / Served to 1960

Maurice T. Dooling Jr.

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Maurice T. Dooling Jr. was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1945–1960 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dooling authored 717 published opinions for the court (1928–1960), plus 15 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Harvey (103 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. 150 of these were attributed to Dooling 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
1958	People v. Harvey· Concurrence†	156 Cal. App. 2d 516	103
1953	Ellis v. D'Angelo	116 Cal. App. 2d 310	74
1953	People v. Foster	115 Cal. App. 2d 866	62
1954	Myers v. Stevenson	270 P.2d 885	58
1957	People v. Dewson· Concurrence†	150 Cal. App. 2d 119	56
1944	Ostertag v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.	65 Cal. App. 2d 795	56
1943	Estate of Dupont	60 Cal. App. 2d 276	55
1947	Manney v. Housing Authority	79 Cal. App. 2d 453	52
1930	Coleman v. City of Oakland	295 P. 59	49
1949	Fleckner v. Dionne· Dissent†	94 Cal. App. 2d 246	48
1957	People v. Castiel	153 Cal. App. 2d 653	47
1952	People v. Cole	113 Cal. App. 2d 253	46
1943	Westphal v. Westphal	61 Cal. App. 2d 544	46
1950	Bowden v. Spiegel, Inc.	96 Cal. App. 2d 793	45
1947	Tranchina v. Arcinas	78 Cal. App. 2d 522	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 763 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 Maurice T. Dooling Jr. on?: Maurice T. Dooling Jr. was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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15 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).