How do judges of the Supreme Court of California reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1880 / Served to 1887

Milton H. Myrick

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Milton H. Myrick was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1880. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1826 · age 200
Tenure: 1880–1887 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1880	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Myrick authored 262 published opinions for the court (1880–1886), plus 18 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Lux v. Haggin (265 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. 308 of these were attributed to Myrick 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
1886	Lux v. Haggin· Dissent†	69 Cal. 255	265
1885	Sharon v. Sharon· Concurrence†	67 Cal. 185	105
1880	Beeson v. Green Mountain Gold Mining Co.†	57 Cal. 20	71
1886	Lux v. Haggin· Dissent†	69 Cal. 255	61
1881	People v. Parks· Concurrence†	58 Cal. 624	51
1886	In re Gannon· Dissent†	69 Cal. 541	46
1883	Cole v. Superior Court†	63 Cal. 86	44
1882	People v. Pico†	62 Cal. 50	44
1881	San Jose Gas Co. v. January†	57 Cal. 614	39
1886	In re Buckley· Concurrence†	69 Cal. 1	38
1884	In re Estate of Billings†	64 Cal. 427	38
1880	Price v. Riverside Land & Irrigating Co.· Concurrence†	56 Cal. 431	38
1885	In re Estate of Skerrett†	67 Cal. 585	36
1880	People v. Alviso†	55 Cal. 230	35
1885	People v. Lennox†	67 Cal. 113	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 309 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 Milton H. Myrick on?: Milton H. Myrick was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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7 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).