How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?

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

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 1991 / Served to 2000

Philip E. Toci

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Philip E. Toci was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1991–2000 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Toci authored 132 published opinions for the court (1992–2001), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Larsen v. Decker (63 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. 35 of these were attributed to Toci 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
2000	Larsen v. Decker	995 P.2d 281	63
1995	State v. Herrera	905 P.2d 1377	61
1994	Smith v. American Express Travel Related Services Co.	876 P.2d 1166	50
1996	MacCollum v. Perkinson	913 P.2d 1097	47
1998	Elia v. Pifer	977 P.2d 796	41
1999	State Compensation Fund v. Yellow Cab Co.	3 P.3d 1040	39
1995	Commercial Union Insurance v. Lewis & Roca	902 P.2d 1354	39
1992	Estate of Bohn v. Waddell	848 P.2d 324	38
2000	Diggs v. Arizona Cardiologists, Ltd.	8 P.3d 386	37
1995	Mayer v. State	908 P.2d 56	36
1996	Tellez v. Saban	933 P.2d 1233	35
1992	State v. Johnson	827 P.2d 1134	35
1992	State v. Martin	847 P.2d 619	32
2000	State v. Clary	2 P.3d 1255	31
1998	State v. Cramer	962 P.2d 224	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 137 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 Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Philip E. Toci on?: Philip E. Toci was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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