Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles / Joined 1989 / Served to 1999

Sherman N. Smith Jr.

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

Sherman N. Smith Jr. was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles (454 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1989. He previously served on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1999 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–
1989	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 182 published opinions for the court (1960–1965), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: King v. State (86 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. 60 of these were attributed to Smith 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
1963	King v. State	157 So. 2d 440	86
1965	In the Interest of S. L. T.†	180 So. 2d 374	61
1964	American Fire and Casualty Company v. Collura	163 So. 2d 784	59
1962	Collins v. State	143 So. 2d 700	54
1965	Koptyra v. State	172 So. 2d 628	51
1963	Port Royal, Inc. v. Conboy	154 So. 2d 734	44
1965	Grammer v. Roman	174 So. 2d 443	40
1964	Reliance Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Ill. v. Booher	166 So. 2d 222	35
1961	HI Holding Company v. Dade County	129 So. 2d 693	34
1965	Goff v. Indian Lake Estates, Inc.	178 So. 2d 910	33
1963	Keur v. State	160 So. 2d 546	32
1965	Southeastern Sales & Service Co. v. TT Watson, Inc.	172 So. 2d 239	31
1962	McCormick v. Miami Herald Publishing Company	139 So. 2d 197	29
1965	Matarese v. Leesburg Elks Club	171 So. 2d 606	28
1962	Harrison v. McCourtney	148 So. 2d 53	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 185 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 Los Angeles reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Sherman N. Smith Jr. on?: Sherman N. Smith Jr. was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Sources

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