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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1979 / Served to 1986

Bernard Stern Meyer

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Bernard Stern Meyer was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2005
Tenure: 1979–1986 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Judicial Record

In our data, Meyer authored 174 published opinions for the court (1979–1986), plus 113 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Zuckerman v. City of New York (8,959 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. 299 of these were attributed to Meyer 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
1980	Zuckerman v. City of New York· Concurrence†	49 N.Y.2d 557	8,959
1979	People v. Gonzalez†	47 N.Y.2d 606	5,490
1980	Hearst Corp. v. Clyne· Concurrence†	50 N.Y.2d 707	1,757
1983	Northern Westchester Professional Park Associates v. Town of Bedford†	60 N.Y.2d 492	1,367
1981	People v. Galloway· Dissent†	54 N.Y.2d 396	1,342
1983	Murphy v. American Home Products Corp.· Dissent†	58 N.Y.2d 293	1,284
1982	Friederwitzer v. Friederwitzer†	55 N.Y.2d 89	996
1981	People v. Ventimiglia†	52 N.Y.2d 350	761
1980	People v. Howard†	50 N.Y.2d 583	648
1985	Maddox v. City of New York†	66 N.Y.2d 270	567
1982	People v. Green†	56 N.Y.2d 427	563
1984	Majauskas v. Majauskas†	61 N.Y.2d 481	522
1983	Burns Jackson Miller Summit & Spitzer v. Lindner†	59 N.Y.2d 314	514
1985	Fourth Ocean Putnam Corp. v. Interstate Wrecking Co.†	66 N.Y.2d 38	497
1980	Russo v. New York State Board of Parole†	50 N.Y.2d 69	442

Showing the 15 most-cited of 309 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 Bernard Stern Meyer on?: Bernard Stern Meyer was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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7 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).