What is the scope of the discretionary authority of the California Court of Appeal in dealing with personal injury cases?

People v. Brown (2016) 245 Cal.App.4th 140, 156, 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 303.) However, we have explained before that "[t]he discretion conferred upon the court is a discretion, governed by legal rules, to do justice according to law or to the analogies of the law, as near as may be. [Citation.] That is to say, the range of judicial discretion is determined by analogy to the rules contained in the general law and in the specific body or system of law in which the discretionary authority is granted." (

[281 Cal.Rptr.3d 819]