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 1914 / Served to 1932

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1914. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1870–1938
Tenure: 1914–1932 · 18 yrs
Education: Columbia College 1889

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1914	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
Columbia College	A.B.	1889

Judicial Record

In our data, Cardozo authored 10 published opinions for the court (1915–1930), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Schmidt (111 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. 12 of these were attributed to Cardozo 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
1915	People v. Schmidt†	216 N.Y. 324	111
1923	People v. . Creasy· Concurrence†	140 N.E. 563	49
1925	Ader v. Blau· Dissent†	148 N.E. 771	29
1916	New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. General Electric Co.†	219 N.Y. 227	20
1930	Woloszynowski v. New York Central Railroad†	254 N.Y. 206	19
1915	People v. Shilitano†	215 N.Y. 715	9
1916	Continental Securities Co. v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad†	217 N.Y. 119	5
1924	Motion for Re-argument†	239 N.Y. 171	3
1921	Cott v. Erie Railroad†	231 N.Y. 67	3
1929	Carey v. New York Central Railroad†	250 N.Y. 345	1
1916	People ex rel. O'Loughlin v. Prendergast†	219 N.Y. 377	0
1915	Loomis v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad†	214 N.Y. 447	0

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Benjamin Nathan Cardozo on?: Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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18 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).