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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1981 / Served to 2007

Paul Boland

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Paul Boland was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–2007 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2001	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boland authored 98 published opinions for the court (1999–2007), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Benach v. County of Los Angeles (548 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. 10 of these were attributed to Boland 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
2007	Benach v. County of Los Angeles	57 Cal. Rptr. 3d 363	548
2006	Daugherty v. American Honda Motor Co., Inc.	51 Cal. Rptr. 3d 118	301
2006	Gelfo v. Lockheed Martin Corporation	43 Cal. Rptr. 3d 874	144
2005	City of Santa Monica v. Stewart	24 Cal. Rptr. 3d 72	113
2003	People v. Beasley	130 Cal. Rptr. 2d 717	107
2004	Martinez v. Master Protection Corp.	12 Cal. Rptr. 3d 663	95
2006	In Re Hunter S.	48 Cal. Rptr. 3d 823	92
2006	People v. Woods	53 Cal. Rptr. 3d 7	78
2002	Paul v. Friedman	117 Cal. Rptr. 2d 82	76
2005	Persson v. Smart Inventions, Inc.	23 Cal. Rptr. 3d 335	73
2004	Vega v. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue	17 Cal. Rptr. 3d 26	72
2006	Burkle v. Burkle†	139 Cal. App. 4th 712	66
2001	People v. Viramontes†	93 Cal. App. 4th 1256	64
1999	Howard Contracting, Inc. v. G.A. MacDonald Construction Co.†	83 Cal. Rptr. 2d 590	64
2004	Alch v. Superior Court	19 Cal. Rptr. 3d 29	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 99 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 Paul Boland on?: Paul Boland was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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26 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).