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 1919 / Served to 1926

William H. Langdon

Justice, California Court of Appeal

William H. Langdon was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1919. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1919–1926 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1919	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Langdon authored 383 published opinions for the court (1919–1926), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Levin v. Saroff (41 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. 11 of these were attributed to Langdon 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
1921	Levin v. Saroff	201 P. 961	41
1921	Dillingham v. Dahlgren	198 P. 832	38
1925	Dillon v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America	242 P. 736	36
1920	Dominguez v. Pendola	188 P. 1025	31
1925	Reno v. American Ice Machine Co.	237 P. 784	28
1924	People v. Dean.	226 P. 943	27
1922	Johnson v. Krier	210 P. 966	27
1920	De Bairos v. Barlin	190 P. 188	27
1920	Fitzhugh v. University of Realty Co.	188 P. 1023	27
1924	Reardon v. Spring Valley Water Co.	228 P. 406	25
1919	Figone v. Guisti	185 P. 694	25
1924	Lawrence v. Pickwick Stages, Northern Division, Inc.	229 P. 885	24
1921	Moblad v. Western Indemnity Co. of Dallas	200 P. 750	24
1919	Milekovich v. Quinn	181 P. 256	23
1923	Crawford v. Kennedy	222 P.2d 644	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 385 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 William H. Langdon on?: William H. Langdon was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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7 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).