How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1936 / Served to 1955

Albert Cohn

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Albert Cohn was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1959
Tenure: 1936–1955 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cohn authored 332 published opinions for the court (1936–1955), plus 144 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Buckley v. 112 Central Park South, Inc. (57 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. 486 of these were attributed to Cohn 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
1954	Buckley v. 112 Central Park South, Inc.· Concurrence†	285 A.D. 331	57
1948	Dairymen's League Cooperative Ass'n v. Murtagh†	274 A.D. 591	50
1945	Elsfelder v. Cournand†	270 A.D. 162	45
1938	Brenner v. Bruckman†	253 A.D. 607	37
1944	Turner v. American Metal Co.†	268 A.D. 239	34
1945	Goldman v. Rafel Estates, Inc.†	269 A.D. 647	33
1940	Bard-Parker Co. v. Dictograph Products Co.†	258 A.D. 638	33
1946	Klar v. H. & M. Parcel Room, Inc.†	270 A.D. 538	32
1937	Lorde v. Guardian Life Insurance†	252 A.D. 646	31
1953	Stanwood United, Inc. v. O'Connell†	283 A.D. 79	30
1938	Maguire v. Yellow Taxicab Corp.†	253 A.D. 249	30
1945	Ashland Window & Housecleaning Co. v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance†	269 A.D. 31	29
1940	Melis v. Department of Health†	260 A.D. 772	29
1951	People v. Russo†	278 A.D. 98	28
1939	In re the Arbitration between Shirley Silk Co. & American Silk Mills, Inc.†	257 A.D. 375	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 486 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 Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Albert Cohn on?: Albert Cohn was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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19 years on the New York Appellate Division. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).