How do judges of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is presidential appointment.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals / Joined 1963 / Served to 1972

Nathan Cayton

Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Nathan Cayton was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1963–1972 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	District of Columbia Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cayton authored 858 published opinions for the court (1950–1972). Most cited: Boyle v. National Cas. Co. (40 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. 17 of these were attributed to Cayton 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
1951	Boyle v. National Cas. Co.	84 A.2d 614	40
1964	Ritz v. Ritz	197 A.2d 155	39
1967	Myers v. Gaither	232 A.2d 577	36
1951	Pfeffer v. Ernst	82 A.2d 763	34
1951	Fleming v. Bronfin	80 A.2d 915	34
1953	Dyson v. United States	97 A.2d 135	32
1961	Taylor v. Greenway Restaurant, Inc.	173 A.2d 211	31
1967	Bond v. United States	233 A.2d 506	29
1954	Hurd v. District of Columbia	106 A.2d 702	29
1960	In Re LEM	164 A.2d 345	28
1950	Sterling v. Weinstein	75 A.2d 144	28
1968	Washington Sheraton Corporation v. Keeter	239 A.2d 620	27
1954	Viands v. Safeway Stores, Inc.	107 A.2d 118	27
1951	Peters v. District of Columbia	84 A.2d 115	27
1968	Hines v. United States	237 A.2d 827	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 858 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 District of Columbia Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is presidential appointment.
Which court was Nathan Cayton on?: Nathan Cayton was a Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Sources

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