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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1940 / Served to 1959

Albert Conway

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Albert Conway was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1969
Tenure: 1940–1959 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Fordham University

Judicial Record

In our data, Conway authored 415 published opinions for the court (1940–1959), plus 109 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Bing v. Thunig (502 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. 197 of these were attributed to Conway 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
1957	Bing v. Thunig· Concurrence†	2 N.Y.2d 656	502
1953	People v. Trowbridge†	305 N.Y. 471	409
1956	Israel v. Wood Dolson Co.†	1 N.Y.2d 116	281
1951	Rodgers v. Village of Tarrytown· Dissent†	302 N.Y. 115	247
1951	People v. Richetti· Dissent†	302 N.Y. 290	232
1956	Defiance Milk Products Co. v. Du Mond· Dissent†	309 N.Y. 537	229
1941	Meiselman v. Crown Heights Hospital, Inc.· Concurrence	34 N.E.2d 367	222
1949	People v. Olah· Dissent	89 N.E.2d 329	220
1958	Schuster v. City of New York· Dissent†	5 N.Y.2d 75	218
1954	Hecht v. Monaghan†	307 N.Y. 461	212
1957	Bethlehem Steel Co. v. Turner Construction Co.· Dissent†	2 N.Y.2d 456	209
1956	Prashker v. United States Guarantee Co.	1 N.Y.2d 584	191
1953	Mencher v. Weiss†	306 N.Y. 1	189
1952	Caldwell v. Village of Island Park†	304 N.Y. 268	183
1959	Arthur A. Johnson Corp. v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America	7 N.Y.2d 222	158

Showing the 15 most-cited of 535 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 Albert Conway on?: Albert Conway was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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19 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).