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

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1920 / Served to 1922

William A. Sloane

Justice, Supreme Court of California

William A. Sloane was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1920. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1854 · age 172
Tenure: 1920–1922 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1920	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sloane authored 80 published opinions for the court (1920–1922), plus 9 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Mayen (155 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. 1 of these was attributed to Sloane 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
1922	People v. Mayen	205 P. 435	155
1921	G. L. Eastman Co. v. Industrial Acc. Com.	200 P. 17	85
1922	Poultry Producers of Southern California, Inc. v. Barlow	208 P. 93	67
1921	Wallis v. Southern Pacific Co.	195 P. 408	66
1921	Andersen v. Superior Court	200 P. 963	58
1920	Crowe v. Boyle· Concurrence	193 P. 111	57
1921	Anderson v. Citizens Sav. & Tr. Co.· Dissent	197 P. 113	50
1921	Birch v. County of Orange	200 P. 647	48
1921	Turlock Irrigation Dist. v. White· Dissent	198 P. 1060	47
1920	MacMillan Co. v. Clarke	194 P. 1030	47
1921	Moore Shipbuilding Corp. v. Indus. Accident Comm'n	196 P. 257	46
1922	Van Hoosear v. Railroad Commission	207 P. 903	45
1921	Moropoulos v. C. H. & O. B. Fuller Co.	200 P. 601	45
1922	County of Tulare v. City of Dinuba	206 P. 983	44
1921	Tulare Water Co. v. State Water Commission	202 P. 874	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 92 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was William A. Sloane on?: William A. Sloane was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

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