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 2002 / Served to 2009

Anthony T. Kane

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Anthony T. Kane was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2009 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kane authored 862 published opinions for the court (2002–2009), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Gizzi v. Hall (265 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. 871 of these were attributed to Kane 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
2003	Gizzi v. Hall†	309 A.D.2d 1140	265
2007	People v. Jenner†	39 A.D.3d 1083	261
2006	Nash v. New York State Department of Labor†	34 A.D.3d 905	256
2009	Saratoga Property Developments, LLC v. Assessor of City of Saratoga Springs†	62 A.D.3d 1107	135
2004	People v. Rogers†	8 A.D.3d 888	111
2004	People v. Wright†	5 A.D.3d 873	79
2003	People v. Greene†	306 A.D.2d 639	59
2008	Cobane v. Cobane†	57 A.D.3d 1320	56
2009	Flood v. Flood†	63 A.D.3d 1197	53
2003	People v. Love†	307 A.D.2d 528	52
2006	People v. Dalton†	27 A.D.3d 779	51
2003	Rosario WW. v. Ellen WW.†	309 A.D.2d 984	50
2006	Alvarez v. Goord†	30 A.D.3d 118	48
2003	Curanovic v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance†	307 A.D.2d 435	45
2007	People v. Cherry†	46 A.D.3d 1234	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 871 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 Anthony T. Kane on?: Anthony T. Kane was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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7 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).