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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1949 / Served to 1949

Bruce Ditmas Bromley

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Bruce Ditmas Bromley was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1980
Tenure: 1949–1949

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bromley authored 19 published opinions for the court (1949), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Belcher (256 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1949	People v. Belcher	87 N.E.2d 278	256
1949	General Phoenix Corp. v. Cabot	89 N.E.2d 238	144
1949	Dorsey v. Stuyvesant Town Corp.	87 N.E.2d 541	95
1949	1130 President St. Corp. v. Bolton Realty Corp.	89 N.E.2d 16	32
1949	Loab Estates, Inc. v. Druhe	90 N.E.2d 25	31
1949	Matter of Casey v. Hinkle Iron Works	87 N.E.2d 419	31
1949	Harman v. Board of Educ. of City of N.Y.	88 N.E.2d 351	30
1949	Worm v. United States Trust Co.	87 N.E.2d 293	30
1949	Matter of Tompkins v. Board of Regents	87 N.E.2d 517	26
1949	In Re the Claim of Mallia	86 N.E.2d 577	18
1949	Pines v. Beck	90 N.E.2d 28	16
1949	People v. Perez	90 N.E.2d 40	15
1949	In Re the Accounting of Tuttle	87 N.E.2d 558	15
1949	In Re the Arbitration Between Utility Laundry Service, Inc. & Sklar	90 N.E.2d 178	9
1949	People v. Kunz· Dissent	90 N.E.2d 455	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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 Bruce Ditmas Bromley on?: Bruce Ditmas Bromley was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1949. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).