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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1978 / Served to 1992

Robert R. Devich

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Robert R. Devich was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1992 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1986	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Devich authored 21 published opinions for the court (1981–1992), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: Do It Urself Moving & Storage, Inc. v. Brown, Leifer, Slatkin & Berns (45 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. 4 of these were attributed to Devich 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
1992	Do It Urself Moving & Storage, Inc. v. Brown, Leifer, Slatkin & Berns	7 Cal. App. 4th 27	45
1987	No Oil, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles	196 Cal. App. 3d 223	37
1987	Geffen v. County of Los Angeles	197 Cal. App. 3d 188	23
1989	White Motor Corp. v. Teresinski	214 Cal. App. 3d 754	21
1992	Nalian Truck Lines, Inc. v. Nakano Warehouse & Transportation Corp.	6 Cal. App. 4th 1256	20
1991	Optical Surplus, Inc. v. Superior Court	228 Cal. App. 3d 776	17
1991	Estate of England	233 Cal. App. 3d 1	16
1991	Edwards v. Hall	234 Cal. App. 3d 886	12
1987	Elder v. Carlisle Insurance	193 Cal. App. 3d 1313	11
1981	Nicoletti v. Lizzoli	124 Cal. App. 3d 361	11
1990	Doe v. Superior Court	222 Cal. App. 3d 1406	10
1988	People v. Chaney· Concurrence†	202 Cal. App. 3d 1109	10
1986	People v. Dwayne Irvine Profit· Concurrence†	183 Cal. App. 3d 849	10
1981	People v. Jones	123 Cal. App. 3d 83	10
1989	Hanna v. City of Los Angeles· Concurrence†	212 Cal. App. 3d 363	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Robert R. Devich on?: Robert R. Devich was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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13 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).