Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento / Joined 1975 / Served to 1989

William McKendree Morgan

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento

William McKendree Morgan was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento (51 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1975. He previously served on the Idaho Supreme Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1869–1942
Tenure: 1975–1989 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1915	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–
1975	Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Morgan authored 341 published opinions for the court (1915–1942), plus 57 dissents and 54 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. Faris-Kesl Construction Co. (74 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. 199 of these were attributed to Morgan 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
1915	Smith v. Faris-Kesl Construction Co.†	27 Idaho 407	74
1934	Beaver v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.· Dissent	41 P.2d 605	72
1937	State v. McMahan	65 P.2d 156	61
1916	State v. Fong Loon· Concurrence†	29 Idaho 248	61
1936	Johnson v. Diefendorf	57 P.2d 1068	55
1938	Manion Ex Rel. Manion v. Waybright	86 P.2d 181	52
1917	Davenport v. Burke†	30 Idaho 599	50
1939	State v. Conner	89 P.2d 197	46
1918	Dover Lumber Co. v. Case†	31 Idaho 276	43
1939	State v. Patterson	88 P.2d 493	40
1941	Foster's, Inc. v. Boise City· Concurrence	118 P.2d 721	38
1940	Hobbs v. Union Pacific R. R. Co.	108 P.2d 841	36
1933	Idaho Gold Dredging Corp. v. Boise Payette Lumber Co.	22 P.2d 147	36
1942	Hepp v. Ader	130 P.2d 859	35
1933	State v. Brown· Dissent	26 P.2d 131	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 465 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 Sacramento reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William McKendree Morgan on?: William McKendree Morgan was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento.

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