How do judges of the California Court of Appeal reach the bench?

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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1971 / Served to 1979

Robert F. Kane

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Robert F. Kane was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1971–1979 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kane authored 134 published opinions for the court (1971–1979), plus 5 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Bradley v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (105 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. 18 of these were attributed to Kane 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
1973	Bradley v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.	30 Cal. App. 3d 818	105
1978	People v. Corona	80 Cal. App. 3d 684	96
1975	Bedolla v. Logan & Frazer	52 Cal. App. 3d 118	88
1977	Mozzetti v. City of Brisbane	67 Cal. App. 3d 565	80
1975	Roemer v. Retail Credit Co.	44 Cal. App. 3d 926	74
1978	Lowell v. Mother's Cake & Cookie Co.	79 Cal. App. 3d 13	73
1972	Ascherman v. Natanson	23 Cal. App. 3d 861	73
1977	Dryden v. Tri-Valley Growers	65 Cal. App. 3d 990	72
1975	O'NEIL v. Spillane	45 Cal. App. 3d 147	60
1974	People v. Johnson	39 Cal. App. 3d 749	56
1979	Rappenecker v. Sea-Land Service, Inc.	93 Cal. App. 3d 256	55
1977	Div. of Labor Law Enf't v. Transpacific Transp. Co.	69 Cal. App. 3d 268	54
1974	Ventura County Humane Society v. Holloway	40 Cal. App. 3d 897	54
1973	Shepard v. Alexian Brothers Hospital, Inc.	33 Cal. App. 3d 606	53
1976	McMillan v. American General Finance Corp.	60 Cal. App. 3d 175	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 F. Kane on?: Robert F. Kane was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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8 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).