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 1939 / Served to 1958

Minor Moore

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Minor Moore was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1939–1958 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 802 published opinions for the court (1939–1957), plus 4 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Gordon (94 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. 167 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1945	People v. Gordon	71 Cal. App. 2d 606	94
1945	People v. Horowitz	70 Cal. App. 2d 675	87
1952	People v. Darby	250 P.2d 743	73
1946	Elms v. Elms	72 Cal. App. 2d 508	73
1946	People v. Hill	77 Cal. App. 2d 287	48
1948	Estate of Krone	83 Cal. App. 2d 766	47
1953	People v. Collins	117 Cal. App. 2d 175	46
1949	People v. Lindsey	90 Cal. App. 2d 558	46
1957	Eramdjian v. Interstate Bakery Corp.	153 Cal. App. 2d 590	45
1945	Cook v. Stewart McKee & Co.	68 Cal. App. 2d 758	45
1942	People v. Caldwell	55 Cal. App. 2d 238	45
1939	McComsey v. Leaf	36 Cal. App. 2d 132	45
1955	Gist v. French	288 P.2d 1003	44
1956	People v. Gonzales	141 Cal. App. 2d 604	43
1956	People v. Shannon	147 Cal. App. 2d 300	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 831 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 Minor Moore on?: Minor Moore 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).