How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1967 / Served to 1978

Charles David Breitel

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Charles David Breitel was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1967. He previously served on the New York Appellate Division. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1991
Tenure: 1967–1978 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	New York Appellate Division	–	–
1967	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Breitel authored 459 published opinions for the court (1952–1978), plus 198 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Basso v. Miller (1,277 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. 651 of these were attributed to Breitel 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
1976	Basso v. Miller· Concurrence†	40 N.Y.2d 233	1,277
1977	People v. Case· Concurrence†	42 N.Y.2d 98	1,186
1976	Bennett v. Jeffreys†	40 N.Y.2d 543	1,182
1969	People v. Yukl· Dissent†	25 N.Y.2d 585	893
1974	People v. Selikoff†	35 N.Y.2d 227	748
1976	People v. Hobson†	39 N.Y.2d 479	737
1974	Andre v. Pomeroy· Dissent†	35 N.Y.2d 361	631
1975	People v. Ingle†	36 N.Y.2d 413	541
1967	St. Lawrence University v. Trustees of the Theological School of St. Lawrence University†	20 N.Y.2d 317	521
1976	People v. Patterson· Concurrence†	39 N.Y.2d 288	442
1975	Grace v. New York State Tax Commission	37 N.Y.2d 193	441
1976	People v. Gonzalez†	39 N.Y.2d 122	406
1977	Rinaldi v. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.· Concurrence†	42 N.Y.2d 369	401
1967	People v. Nixon†	21 N.Y.2d 338	401
1978	Simonds v. Simonds†	45 N.Y.2d 233	400

Showing the 15 most-cited of 699 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 Charles David Breitel on?: Charles David Breitel was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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11 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).