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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1919 / Served to 1920

Abram Elkus

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Abram Elkus was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1919. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1867–1947
Tenure: 1919–1920 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1919	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Elkus authored 15 published opinions for the court (1920), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Belotti v. . Bickhardt (147 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 Elkus 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
1920	Belotti v. . Bickhardt	127 N.E. 239	147
1920	Ehrenworth v. . Stuhmer Co.	128 N.E. 108	73
1920	Wagner Trading Co. v. Battery Park National Bank	126 N.E. 347	69
1920	Claim of Verschleiser v. Joseph Stern & Son	128 N.E. 126	62
1920	Canavan v. . City of Mechanicville· Dissent	128 N.E. 882	53
1920	Claim of Woodruff v. R. H. Howes Construction Co.	127 N.E. 270	28
1920	Anderson v. . Fidelity Casualty Co.	127 N.E. 534	26
1920	Fox v. . Arctic Placer Mining Milling Co.	128 N.E. 154	22
1920	France & Canada Steamship Corp. v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.	127 N.E. 893	22
1920	People v. . Johnston	127 N.E. 186	21
1920	Matter of Lorchitsky v. . Gotham Folding Box Co.· Dissent	128 N.E. 899	17
1920	Castriotis v. . Guaranty Trust Co.	127 N.E. 900	14
1920	People v. . Hudson River Connecting R.R. Corp.	126 N.E. 801	14
1920	Kreiss v. . &198tna Life Ins. Co.	127 N.E. 481	6
1920	People ex rel. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Public Service Commission†	230 N.Y. 95	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Abram Elkus on?: Abram Elkus was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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1 year on the New York Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).