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 1950 / Served to 1961

Van Dyke

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Van Dyke was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1950–1961 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dyke authored 644 published opinions for the court (1950–1967), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. Superior Court (52 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. 169 of these were attributed to Dyke 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
1957	Walker v. Superior Court	155 Cal. App. 2d 134	52
1953	Stockton Theatres, Inc. v. Palermo	264 P.2d 74	43
1955	Ashwell v. Ashwell	135 Cal. App. 2d 211	38
1956	Continental Pacific Lines v. Superior Court	299 P.2d 417	36
1953	Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Minnette	115 Cal. App. 2d 698	36
1959	Firco, Inc. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance	173 Cal. App. 2d 524	35
1955	People v. Keelin	136 Cal. App. 2d 860	35
1958	Wetsel v. Garibaldi	159 Cal. App. 2d 4	34
1956	Marcucci v. Board of Equalization	138 Cal. App. 2d 605	34
1959	De La Forest v. Yandle	171 Cal. App. 2d 59	33
1963	Robinson v. MacBride	211 Cal. App. 2d 556	31
1956	People v. Molarius (1956)	146 Cal. App. 2d 129	31
1958	Crofoot Lumber, Inc. v. Thompson	163 Cal. App. 2d 324	30
1955	Caron v. Andrew	133 Cal. App. 2d 402	30
1950	Jackson v. Superior Court	98 Cal. App. 2d 183	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 654 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 Van Dyke on?: Van Dyke was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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11 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).