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 1953 / Served to 1968

Bernard Botein

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Bernard Botein was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1974
Tenure: 1953–1968 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Education

CUNY City College
CUNY Brooklyn College

Judicial Record

In our data, Botein authored 114 published opinions for the court (1953–1968), plus 28 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Kazaras v. Manufacturers Trust Co. (259 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. 139 of these were attributed to Botein 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	Kazaras v. Manufacturers Trust Co.· Dissent†	4 A.D.2d 227	259
1958	Arthur A. Johnson Corp. v. Indemnity Insurance†	6 A.D.2d 97	99
1957	Lauritano v. American Fidelity Fire Insurance†	3 A.D.2d 564	91
1962	Wholesale Laundry Board of Trade, Inc. v. City of New York	17 A.D.2d 327	88
1960	Brause v. Goldman†	10 A.D.2d 328	58
1965	University of Notre Dame Du Lac v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.†	22 A.D.2d 452	54
1962	Booth v. Curtis Publishing Co.	15 A.D.2d 343	42
1963	Seltzer v. Fields	20 A.D.2d 60	40
1956	Phillips v. Phillips†	1 A.D.2d 393	35
1956	Benton v. Kennedy-Van Saun Mfg. & Eng. Corp.†	2 A.D.2d 27	34
1965	Kaminsky v. Kahn	23 A.D.2d 231	33
1966	M. Katz & Son Billiard Products, Inc. v. G. Correale & Sons, Inc.†	26 A.D.2d 52	32
1958	Mokar Properties Corp. v. Hall†	6 A.D.2d 536	32
1959	Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. of Wisconsin v. Di Cesare & Monaco Concrete Construction Corp.†	9 A.D.2d 379	24
1957	Commissioners of State Insurance Fund v. Miller†	4 A.D.2d 481	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 150 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 Bernard Botein on?: Bernard Botein was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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15 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).