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 1999 / Served to 2007

Carl J. Mugglin

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Carl J. Mugglin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2007 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mugglin authored 1,029 published opinions for the court (1999–2007), plus 12 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Toland (261 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. 1,048 of these were attributed to Mugglin 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	People v. Toland†	2 A.D.3d 1053	261
2005	People v. Torres· Dissent†	19 A.D.3d 732	255
2001	Howard v. J.A.J. Realty Enterprises, Ltd.†	283 A.D.2d 854	251
2007	Mann v. Malasky†	41 A.D.3d 1136	250
2000	Franklin v. Franklin†	268 A.D.2d 814	136
2003	John v. Engel†	2 A.D.3d 1027	61
2006	In re Alaina E.†	33 A.D.3d 1084	51
2001	Trotter v. Hart†	285 A.D.2d 772	44
2006	In re Evelyn B.· Dissent†	30 A.D.3d 913	38
2004	People v. Pierre†	8 A.D.3d 904	36
2005	People v. Lanfair†	18 A.D.3d 1032	35
2003	Gorman v. Hess†	301 A.D.2d 683	35
2007	People v. Tucker†	40 A.D.3d 1213	34
2002	In re a Trust Created by Malasky†	290 A.D.2d 631	34
2001	Toomey v. Adirondack Surgical Associates†	280 A.D.2d 754	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,048 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 Carl J. Mugglin on?: Carl J. Mugglin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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8 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).