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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1961 / Served to 1985

Vincent S. Dalsimer

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Vincent S. Dalsimer was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1961–1985 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1981	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dalsimer authored 45 published opinions for the court (1981–1985), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Miramar Hotel Corp. v. Frank B. Hall & Co. (64 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. 15 of these were attributed to Dalsimer 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
1985	Miramar Hotel Corp. v. Frank B. Hall & Co.	163 Cal. App. 3d 1126	64
1985	Velasco v. Commercial Building Maintenance Co.	169 Cal. App. 3d 874	57
1982	Kelly v. General Telephone Co.	136 Cal. App. 3d 278	47
1985	People v. Roehler· Dissent†	167 Cal. App. 3d 353	44
1983	O'BRIEN v. Cseh	148 Cal. App. 3d 957	39
1983	Security Pacific National Bank v. Adamo· Dissent†	142 Cal. App. 3d 492	31
1985	In Re Marriage of Hargrave	163 Cal. App. 3d 346	28
1984	People v. Jacobs	158 Cal. App. 3d 740	26
1984	Williams v. Transport Indemnity Co.· Concurrence†	157 Cal. App. 3d 953	26
1983	Dover v. Sadowinski	147 Cal. App. 3d 113	25
1983	Scott v. Farrar	139 Cal. App. 3d 462	24
1985	Wayte v. Rollins International, Inc.	169 Cal. App. 3d 1	19
1982	MacKler v. Alexis· Dissent†	130 Cal. App. 3d 44	19
1983	Hernandez v. Temple	142 Cal. App. 3d 286	18
1983	Mission Insurance Group, Inc. v. Merco Construction Engineers, Inc.	147 Cal. App. 3d 1059	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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 Vincent S. Dalsimer on?: Vincent S. Dalsimer was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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23 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).