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 1998 / Served to 2006

Albert Martin Rosenblatt

Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Albert Martin Rosenblatt was an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1998. He previously served on the New York County Court, Dutchess County and New York Supreme Court, Dutchess County. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1998–2006 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	New York County Court, Dutchess County	–	–
1981	New York Supreme Court, Dutchess County	–	–
1998	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Pennsylvania		1957
Harvard University		1960

Judicial Record

In our data, Rosenblatt authored 133 published opinions for the court (1999–2006), plus 16 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Mateo (5,028 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. 155 of these were attributed to Rosenblatt 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
2004	People v. Mateo· Dissent†	811 N.E.2d 1053	5,028
2004	People v. Stultz†	810 N.E.2d 883	3,665
2003	Woodson v. Mendon Leasing Corp.	790 N.E.2d 1156	1,124
2002	Espinal v. Melville Snow Contractors, Inc.†	773 N.E.2d 485	1,027
2002	511 West 232nd Owners Corp. v. Jennifer Realty Co.†	773 N.E.2d 496	876
2003	Blake v. Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City, Inc.†	803 N.E.2d 757	722
2004	Maheshwari v. City of New York†	810 N.E.2d 894	698
2002	McCoy v. Feinman†	785 N.E.2d 714	446
2003	Giuffrida v. Citibank Corp.†	790 N.E.2d 772	441
1999	O'Shea v. O'Shea†	711 N.E.2d 193	419
2006	Morejon v. Rais Construction Co.†	851 N.E.2d 1143	385
2003	Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, Inc. v. Pataki†	798 N.E.2d 1047	360
2004	People v. Calabria· Concurrence†	816 N.E.2d 1257	345
2005	People v. Lewis†	840 N.E.2d 1014	335
2006	MTR. OF SHONDEL J. v. Mark D.†	853 N.E.2d 610	326

Showing the 15 most-cited of 159 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 Martin Rosenblatt on?: Albert Martin Rosenblatt was an Associate 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).