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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1991 / Served to 1993

Orville A. Armstrong

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Orville A. Armstrong was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1993 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Armstrong authored 129 published opinions for the court (1993–2010), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Caldwell v. Paramount Unified School District (131 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. 1 of these was attributed to Armstrong 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	Caldwell v. Paramount Unified School District	41 Cal. App. 4th 189	131
2003	Consumer Advocates v. Echostar Satellite Corp.	8 Cal. Rptr. 3d 22	116
2004	Oliveros v. County of Los Angeles	16 Cal. Rptr. 3d 638	64
1995	Martin Marietta Corp. v. Insurance Co. of North America	40 Cal. App. 4th 1113	59
2002	Pfeiffer Venice Properties v. Bernard	123 Cal. Rptr. 2d 647	53
2008	Conservatorship of George H.	169 Cal. App. 4th 157	49
1996	Color-Vue, Inc. v. Abrams	44 Cal. App. 4th 1599	49
1999	Bionghi v. Metropolitan Water District	83 Cal. Rptr. 2d 388	47
2003	People v. Mayer	133 Cal. Rptr. 2d 454	45
1997	Avila v. Chua	57 Cal. App. 4th 860	45
2006	Endres v. Moran	37 Cal. Rptr. 3d 786	44
2008	Yari v. PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA, INC.	73 Cal. Rptr. 3d 803	40
1994	Hull v. Central Pathology Service Medical Clinic	28 Cal. App. 4th 1328	39
1993	People Ex Rel. Garamendi v. American Autoplan, Inc.· Concurrence†	20 Cal. App. 4th 760	39
2003	Net2Phone, Inc. v. Superior Court	135 Cal. Rptr. 2d 149	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 130 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 Orville A. Armstrong on?: Orville A. Armstrong was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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2 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).