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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1993 / Served to 2012

Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1993–2012 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	New York Court of Appeals	–	–
1993	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

CUNY Hunter College

Judicial Record

In our data, Ciparick authored 266 published opinions for the court (1994–2012), plus 52 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Goshen v. Mutual Life Insurance (1,819 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. 324 of these were attributed to Ciparick 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
2002	Goshen v. Mutual Life Insurance†	774 N.E.2d 1190	1,819
1997	Szczerbiak v. Pilat†	686 N.E.2d 1346	1,118
1994	Mirand v. City of New York†	637 N.E.2d 263	881
2004	Collier v. Zambito†	807 N.E.2d 254	835
2011	Centro Empresarial Cempresa S.A. v. América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.†	17 N.Y.3d 269	778
2001	Narducci v. Manhasset Bay Associates†	750 N.E.2d 1085	552
1999	Rudder v. Pataki†	711 N.E.2d 978	548
1994	Rocanova v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States†	634 N.E.2d 940	506
2011	People v. Lingle· Dissent†	949 N.E.2d 952	497
2010	Gibbs v. St. Barnabas Hospital· Dissent†	16 N.Y.3d 74	429
2000	Andon v. 302-304 Mott Street Associates†	731 N.E.2d 589	424
1994	Brusco v. Braun· Dissent†	84 N.Y.2d 674	415
2009	Godfrey v. Spano· Concurrence†	13 N.Y.3d 358	410
2006	People v. Feingold· Dissent†	852 N.E.2d 1163	381
1996	People v. Damiano†	663 N.E.2d 607	374

Showing the 15 most-cited of 326 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 Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick on?: Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).