Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino / Joined 1974 / Served to 1987

Roy H. Chapman

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino

Roy H. Chapman was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino (62 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1974. He previously served on the Supreme Court of Florida. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1952
Tenure: 1974–1987 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–
1974	Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chapman authored 824 published opinions for the court (1929–1953), plus 91 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: American Bakeries Co. v. City of Haines City (89 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. 9 of these were attributed to Chapman 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
1938	American Bakeries Co. v. City of Haines City· Dissent	180 So. 524	89
1950	City of St. Petersburg v. Siebold	48 So. 2d 291	79
1943	Brown v. State· Concurrence	13 So. 2d 458	74
1948	Talley v. State	36 So. 2d 201	64
1949	Liquor Store v. Continental Distilling Corp.· Dissent	40 So. 2d 371	62
1943	Hillsborough Investment Co. v. Wilcox	13 So. 2d 448	61
1938	Van Loon v. Van Loon· Concurrence	182 So. 205	55
1944	Blanton v. the Cudahy Packing Company	19 So. 2d 313	53
1938	Henderson v. State	185 So. 625	50
1950	Dunnavant v. State	46 So. 2d 871	47
1938	Marvin v. Housing Authority of Jacksonville	183 So. 145	46
1943	Florida Industrial Commission v. Growers Equipment Co.	12 So. 2d 889	45
1950	Clein v. State	52 So. 2d 117	42
1940	Voorhees v. City of Miami	199 So. 313	41
1940	Smith, Et Vir v. Burdine's, Inc.	198 So. 223	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 976 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 Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Roy H. Chapman on?: Roy H. Chapman was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino.

Sources

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12 years on the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).