How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1847 / Served to 1855

Addison Gardiner

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Addison Gardiner was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1847. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1797–1883
Tenure: 1847–1855 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1847	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gardiner authored 171 published opinions for the court (1847–1855), plus 9 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Hay v. . the Cohoes Company (137 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. 20 of these were attributed to Gardiner 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
1849	Hay v. . the Cohoes Company	2 N.Y. 159	137
1854	Nicoll v. . the New-York and Erie Railroad Co.· Concurrence	12 N.Y. 121	105
1850	Clayton v. . Wardell· Dissent	4 N.Y. 230	72
1849	Candee v. . Lord	2 N.Y. 269	59
1854	Hendrickson v. . the People· Dissent	10 N.Y. 13	56
1853	Moore v. . the Mayor, Aldermen, C., of New York	8 N.Y. 110	54
1847	French v. . Carhart· Concurrence	1 N.Y. 96	54
1850	People Ex Rel. Kellogg v. Schuyler	4 N.Y. 173	53
1848	Shindler v. . Houston	1 N.Y. 261	53
1853	Trull v. . Granger	8 N.Y. 115	52
1848	Whitney v. . Allaire	1 N.Y. 305	52
1854	Brouwer v. . Harbeck· Dissent	9 N.Y. 589	51
1853	The Sun Mutual Ins. Co. v. . the Mayor, C., of New York	8 N.Y. 241	50
1851	Haggart v. . Morgan	5 N.Y. 422	48
1849	Leggett v. . Perkins	2 N.Y. 297	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 210 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 Addison Gardiner on?: Addison Gardiner was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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8 years 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).