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California Court of Appeal / Joined 2002 / Active

Ronald B. Robie

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Ronald B. Robie is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2002. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento	–	–
2002	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Berkeley	Journalism	1960
University of California-Berkeley	with honors	1967
University of the Pacific	with honors	1967

Judicial Record

In our data, Robie authored 260 published opinions for the court (1985–2019), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: People v. SANGHERA (294 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. 111 of these were attributed to Robie 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
2006	People v. SANGHERA	43 Cal. Rptr. 3d 741	294
2009	People v. Hamlin	170 Cal. App. 4th 1412	186
2006	State Water Resources Control Board Cases	39 Cal. Rptr. 3d 189	142
2005	Carnes v. Superior Court	23 Cal. Rptr. 3d 915	140
2005	People v. KEICHLER	29 Cal. Rptr. 3d 120	133
2018	People v. Woods†	228 Cal. Rptr. 3d 318	129
1985	People v. Pitmon	170 Cal. App. 3d 38	115
2009	California Native Plant Society v. City of Rancho Cordova	172 Cal. App. 4th 603	97
2005	People v. Urziceanu	33 Cal. Rptr. 3d 859	90
2014	People v. Hicks†	231 Cal. App. 4th 275	86
2005	Progressive West Insurance v. Superior Court	37 Cal. Rptr. 3d 434	86
2004	Scott v. Metabolite International, Inc.	9 Cal. Rptr. 3d 242	85
2011	Quantification Settlement Agreement Cases†	201 Cal. App. 4th 758	73
2006	In Re Daisy D.	50 Cal. Rptr. 3d 242	64
2007	People v. Racy	56 Cal. Rptr. 3d 455	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 265 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 is Ronald B. Robie on?: Ronald B. Robie is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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24 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).